Denial Logic

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2012-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/1203.0389v4

Mathematics

Logic

18 pages. Citation updated (URL wrapping fixed); minor correction

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Denial Logic DL, a system of justification logic, is the logic an agent whose justified beliefs are false, who cannot avow his own propositional attitudes or believe tautologies, but who can believe contradictions. Using Artemov's natural semantics for justification logic JL, in which justifications are interpreted as sets of formulas, we provide an inductive construction of models of DL, and show that DL is sound and complete. Some notions developed for JL, such as constant specifications and the internalization property, are inconsistent with DL. In contrast, we define negative constant specifications, which can be used in DL to model agents with justified false beliefs. Denial logic can therefore be relevant to philosophical skepticism. We define coherent negative constant specifications for DL to model a Putnamian brain in a vat with the justified false belief that it is not a brain in a vat, and derive a model of justification logic in which "I am a brain in a vat" is false. We define the fusion of Denial Logic with the Logic of Proofs to model envatted brains who can justify and check tautologies and who can avow their propositional attitudes. Denial Logic was inspired by online debates over anthropogenic global warming.

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