Models of Possibilism and Trivialism

Logic and Logical Philosophy 21 (2):175-205 (2012)
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In this paper I probe the idea that neither possibilism nor trivialism could be ruled out on a purely logical basis. I use the apparatus of relational structures used in the semantics for modal logics to engineer some models of possibilism and trivialism and I discuss a philosophical stance about logic, truth values and the meaning of connectives underlying such analysis

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10.12775/llp.2012.010

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