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Article #620Re: Multiple Truth Values
From: Angus H Rodgers
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:18
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:18
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pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
>Any culture with a weak work ethic is vulnerable to the
>oversimplification that there are just two truth values.
That's a beautiful-looking generalisation, but I don't understand
quite what it means or how you arrive at it. Can you expand on it
a bit?
>The algebra of truth
>values is a rich subject that is not adequately represented by the
>passage from {0,1} to its power set, to say the least!
Do you have any references to more adequate studies of the algebra(s)
of truth values?
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