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  • At a colloquium on modal and many-valued logics held in Helsinki in

    The Sun Is Not 2009

  • But a different model might have used many-valued variables to represent the different ways in which Billy and Suzy threw their rocks, their rocks hit the bottle, or the bottle shattered.

    My Shasta Daisy 2009

  • Kripke thinks it probable that Prior's work on many-valued matrices in Time and Modality gave him the idea of converting possible worlds models into many-valued matrices, an approach he followed in his 1963 paper ˜Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic I: Normal Modal Propositional Calculi™.

    The Sun Is Not 2009

  • The discovery of many-valued logic is commonly considered to be one of the major achievements of Łukasiewicz.

    Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009

  • Most famous among these are Łukasiewicz™s many-valued logics.

    Substructural Logics Restall, Greg 2008

  • With the exception of the so-called epistemic solutions, the main approaches to vagueness (such as the ones based on many-valued logics, or supervaluations) require some under-determinacy of reference, and/or the rejection of Bivalence: if an adolescent, m, is a borderline case of adultness, A, then A (m) may turn out to have an intermediate truth value between truth and falsity, or no truth value at all.

    Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008

  • Both many-valued logic, introduced by Łukasiewicz in the twenties

    Kurt Gödel Kennedy, Juliette 2007

  • Łukasiewicz to invent many-valued logic a few years later, was already under way in Lwów before the First World War.

    Stanisław Leśniewski Simons, Peter 2007

  • His papers, entrusted to his student Bolesław Sobociński, included unfinished works on logical antinomies and on many-valued logic.

    Stanisław Leśniewski Simons, Peter 2007

  • By making this idea precise, one obtains a variant of Kripke's (1975) theory of truth with the so called Strong Kleene valuation scheme (see the entry on many-valued logic).

    Axiomatic Theories of Truth Halbach, Volker 2007

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