Logics for the Relational Syllogistic
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| author | Pratt-Hartmann, Ian Moss, Lawrence S. |
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| contents | The Aristotelian syllogistic cannot account for the validity of many inferences involving relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for providing a relational syllogistic. We identify several fragments based on (a) whether negation is permitted on all nouns, including those in the subject of a sentence; and (b) whether the subject noun phrase may contain a relative clause. The logics we present are extensions of the classical syllogistic, and we pay special attention to the question of whether reductio ad absurdum is needed. Thus our main goal is to derive results on the existence (or non-existence) of syllogistic proof systems for relational fragments. We also determine the computational complexity of all our fragments. |
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| spellingShingle | Logics for the Relational Syllogistic Pratt-Hartmann, Ian Moss, Lawrence S. Logic in Computer Science Computational Complexity Computation and Language F.4.1; I.2.3 The Aristotelian syllogistic cannot account for the validity of many inferences involving relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for providing a relational syllogistic. We identify several fragments based on (a) whether negation is permitted on all nouns, including those in the subject of a sentence; and (b) whether the subject noun phrase may contain a relative clause. The logics we present are extensions of the classical syllogistic, and we pay special attention to the question of whether reductio ad absurdum is needed. Thus our main goal is to derive results on the existence (or non-existence) of syllogistic proof systems for relational fragments. We also determine the computational complexity of all our fragments. |
| title | Logics for the Relational Syllogistic |
| topic | Logic in Computer Science Computational Complexity Computation and Language F.4.1; I.2.3 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0521 |