Set Theory and Logic

   

A Different Approach to Logic: Absolute Logic

Authors: Mauro Avon

The paper is about 'absolute logic': an approach to logic that differs from the standard first-order logic and other known approaches. It should be a new approach the author has created proposing to obtain a general and unifying approach to logic and a faithful model of human mathematical deductive process. In first-order logic there exist two different concepts of term and formula, in place of these two concepts in our approach we have just one notion of expression. In our system the set-builder notation is an expression-building pattern. In our system we can easily express second-order, third order and any-order conditions. The meaning of a sentence will depend solely on the meaning of the symbols it contains, it will not depend on external 'structures'. Our deductive system is based on a very simple definition of proof and provides a good model of human mathematical deductive process. The soundness and consistency of the system are proved. We also discuss how our system relates to the most know types of paradoxes, from the discussion no specific vulnerability to paradoxes comes out. The paper provides both the theoretical material and a fully documented example of deduction.

Comments: 105 pages. Moved the discussions on consistency and completeness from chapter 7 to chapter 4, with additions to the discussion. Updated chapter 7 because of this change. Other minor changes

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Submission history

[v1] 23 Jul 2011
[v2] 12 Aug 2011
[v3] 8 Sep 2011
[v4] 2011-12-11 13:41:47
[v5] 2013-12-08 11:38:28
[v6] 2020-07-05 11:46:39
[v7] 2020-07-24 10:00:08
[v8] 2020-08-13 10:05:13
[v9] 2020-09-16 15:17:24

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