Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Probabilistic consequence relations. |
| Authors: |
Égré, Paul1 (AUTHOR), Ripley, Ellie2 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Journal of Logic & Computation. Dec2025, Vol. 35 Issue 8, p1-29. 29p. |
| Subjects: |
Inference (Logic), Propositional calculus, Conditionals (Logic), Distribution (Probability theory) |
| Abstract: |
This paper investigates logical consequence defined in terms of probability distributions, for a classical propositional language using a standard notion of probability. We examine three distinct probabilistic consequence notions, which we call material consequence , preservation consequence and symmetric consequence. While material consequence is fully classical for any threshold, preservation consequence and symmetric consequence are subclassical, with only symmetric consequence gradually approaching classical logic at the limit threshold equal to 1. Our results extend earlier results obtained by J. Paris in a |$\text{Set-Fmla}$| setting to the Set-Set setting, and consider open thresholds beside closed ones. In the Set-Set setting, in particular, they reveal that probability 1 preservation does not yield classical logic, but supervaluationism, and conversely positive probability preservation yields subvaluationism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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