Organon F

Volume 26, August 2019, Issue 3, Pages 340–404

ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)

The present discussion takes up an issue raised in Section 5 of Ross Brady and Penelope Rush’s paper ‘Four Basic Logical Issues’ concerning the (claimed) triviality – in the sense of automatic availability – of soundness and completeness results for a logic in a metalanguage employing at least as much logical vocabulary as the object logic, where the metalogical behaviour of the common logical vocabulary is as in the object logic. We shall see – in Propositions 4.5–4.7 – that this triviality claim faces difficulties in the face of Hallden incompleteness, for essentially the same reasons that Hallden thought this phenomenon raised semantic difficulties for the modal logics of C. I. Lewis exhibiting it. To counter any inclination to dismiss the phenomenon as providing at best a marginal range of counterexamples to the triviality claim, a Postscript assembles some reminders of the extent of – and the varied considerations favouring – Hallden incompleteness.

Nonclassical logic, semantic completeness, homophonic model theory, Hallden completeness, choice of meta-logic.

Author

Lloyd Humberstone

Affiliation

Monash University

Address

Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia

E-mail

lloyd.humberstone@monash.edu 

Received

23 August 2018

Accepted

3 November 2018

Published online

24 August 2019

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Humberstone, L. (2019). Semantics without Toil? Brady and Rush Meet Hallden. Organon F, 26(3), 340–404. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26303

Chicago

Humberstone, Lloyd. 2019. "Semantics without Toil? Brady and Rush Meet Hallden." Organon F 26 (3): 340–404. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26303

Harvard

Humberstone, L. (2019). Semantics without Toil? Brady and Rush Meet Hallden. Organon F, 26(3), pp. 340–404. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2019.26303

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