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arxiv: 1906.03476 · v1 · pith:QEZES4IZnew · submitted 2019-06-08 · 🧮 math.LO · cs.LO

Paraconsistency, resolution and relevance

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keywords classicalkernelsmodelsreasoningrelevanceresolutionsemanticssemikernels
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Digraphs provide an alternative syntax for propositional logic, with digraph kernels corresponding to classical models. Semikernels generalize kernels and we identify a subset of well-behaved semikernels that provides nontrivial models for inconsistent theories, specializing to the classical semantics for the consistent ones. Direct (instead of refutational) reasoning with classical resolution is sound and complete for this semantics, when augmented with a specific weakening which, in particular, excludes Ex Falso. Dropping all forms of weakening yields reasoning which also avoids typical fallacies of relevance.

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