Semantics and Completeness for Schematic Logic

Oliver William Tatton-Brown

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2020.021

Abstract


This paper gives a semantics for schematic logic, proving soundness and completeness. The argument for soundness is carried out in ontologically innocent fashion, relying only on the existence of formulae which are actually written down in the course of a derivation in the logic. This makes the logic available to a nominalist, even a nominalist who does not wish to rely on modal notions, and who accepts the possibility that the universe may in fact be finite.


Keywords


logic; nominalist; schematic logic; semantics; completeness

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