Curry’s paradox, Lukasiewicz, and Field


Συγγραφέας: Peter Smith


Peter Smith: Curry’s paradox, Lukasiewicz, and Field (pdf, 8 pages)
In approaching Ch. 4 of Saving Truth from Paradox, it might be helpful first to revisit Curry’s original paper, and to revisit Lukasiewicz too, to provide more of the scenesetting that Field doesn’t himself fill in. So in §1 I’ll say something about Curry, in §2 we’ll look at what Lukasiewicz was up to in his original three-valued logic, and in §3 we’ll look at the move from a three-valued to a many-valued Lukasiewicz logic. In §4, I move on to announce a theorem by H´