An Analysis of Poly-connexivity

Francez has suggested that connexivity can be predicated of connectives other than the conditional, in particular conjunction and disjunction. Since connexivity is not any connection between antecedents and consequents—there might be other connections among them, such as relevance—, my question here...

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Published in:Studia logica 2022-08, Vol.110 (4), p.925-947
Main Author: Estrada-González, Luis
Format: Article
Language:English
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Computational Linguistics
Education
Logic
Mathematical Logic and Foundations
Philosophy
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Summary:Francez has suggested that connexivity can be predicated of connectives other than the conditional, in particular conjunction and disjunction. Since connexivity is not any connection between antecedents and consequents—there might be other connections among them, such as relevance—, my question here is whether Francez’s conjunction and disjunction can properly be called ‘connexive’. I analyze three ways in which those connectives may somehow inherit connexivity from the conditional by standing in certain relations to it. I will show that Francez’s connectives fail all these three ways, and that even other connectives obtained by following more closely Wansing’s method to get a connexive conditional, fail to be connexive as well.
ISSN:0039-3215
1572-8730
DOI:10.1007/s11225-022-09985-2