<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Roman Suszko said that “Obviously, any multiplication of logical values is a mad idea and, in fact, Łukasiewicz did not actualize it.” The aim of the present paper is to qualify this ‘obvious’ statement through a number of logical and philosophical writings by Professor Jan Woleński, all focusing on the nature of truth-values and their multiple uses in philosophy. It results in a reconstruction of such an abstract object, doing justice to what Suszko held a ‘mad’ project within a generalized logic of judgments. Four main issues raised by Woleński will be considered to test the insightfulness of such generalized truth-values, namely: the principle of bivalence, the logic of scepticism, the coherence theory of truth, and nothingness.</p></abstract>

Roman Suszko said that “Obviously, any multiplication of logical values is a mad idea and, in fact, Łukasiewicz did not actualize it.” The aim of the present paper is to qualify this ‘obvious’ statement through a number of logical and philosophical writings by Professor Jan Woleński, all focusing on the nature of truth-values and their multiple uses in philosophy. It results in a reconstruction of such an abstract object, doing justice to what Suszko held a ‘mad’ project within a generalized logic of judgments. Four main issues raised by Woleński will be considered to test the insightfulness of such generalized truth-values, namely: the principle of bivalence, the logic of scepticism, the coherence theory of truth, and nothingness.

A Judgmental Reconstruction of Some of Professor Woleński’s Logical and Philosophical Writings

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Roman Suszko said that “Obviously, any multiplication of logical values is a mad idea and, in fact, Łukasiewicz did not actualize it.” The aim of the present...

A Judgmental Reconstruction of Some of Professor Woleński’s Logical and Philosophical Writings

Published Online: Nov 11, 2020

Page range: 72 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2020-0029

Keywords
bivalence, coherence, nothingness, partition semantics, scepticism, Jan Woleński

© 2020 Fabien Schang, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

A Judgmental Reconstruction of Some of Professor Woleński’s Logical and Philosophical Writings

Published Online: Nov 11, 2020

Page range: 72 - 103

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2020-0029

Keywordsbivalence, coherence, nothingness, partition semantics, scepticism, Jan Woleński

© 2020 Fabien Schang, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
bivalence, coherence, nothingness, partition semantics, scepticism, Jan Woleński