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Re: [ontolog-forum] Truth

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From: "Matthew West" <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:05:20 +0100
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Dear Pat,
I'm trying to get my head round this stuff.    (01)

> And me. And it was then that I asked John about his basic logical
> construct 'ist', written as
> 
> ist(c, p)
> 
> and read as meaning " p is true in the context c". The question was, is
> the 'p' in this formula a sentence or a proposition? It is *written* in
> the McCarthy/Guha/Makarios context logics as a sentence; but to my
> delight, John said it was a proposition. Which is exactly what it is in
> the IKL way of writing this as a logical relation between two things, a
> context and a proposition:    (02)

MW: How is ist different from simple inference? i.e. from
If c then p.    (03)

Regards    (04)

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