Generalised Revenge∗
Julien Murzi† & Lorenzo Rossi‡
September 11, 2018
Abstract
Since Saul Kripke’s influential work in the 70’s, the revisionary approach to semantic
paradox, the idea that semantic paradoxes must be solved by weakening classical logic,
has been increasingly popular. In this paper, we present a new revenge argument to the
effect that the main revisionary approaches breed new paradoxes they are unable to
block.
1 Introduction
Let λ be a sentence which says of itself that it is not true. On the plausible if naïve assumption
that, for every sentence ϕ, ϕ and ‘ϕ is true’ are in some sense equivalent, a little reflection
shows that λ is true if and only if it isn’t—a contradiction. In classical logic, this entails any
sentence, i.e. the reasoning makes one’s theory trivial. This is the Liar Paradox. Because
the existence of sentences such as λ can be proved from basic syntactic principles, it is
often thought that there are only two main ways out of the problem: one can either give
up naïve principles about ‘true’ and other semantic notions, or revise classical logic. Since
Saul Kripke’s influential work in the 70’s, the latter revisionary option has been increasingly
∗ Early versions of some of this material were presented at conferences and colloquia in Amsterdam,
Barcelona, Bochum, Groningen, Oxford, Rome, Florence, Montreal, and Pamplona. We thank these audiences
for valuable comments. We also wish to thank Jc Beall, Andrea Cantini, Paul Egré, Hartry Field, Rosanna
Keefe, Francesco Paoli, Lavinia Picollo, Dave Ripley, Lucas Rosenblatt, Lionel Shapiro, Neil Tennant, and Elia
Zardini for helpful discussions over the years. Special thanks to Dave Ripley for invaluable comments on
previous drafts of this paper that have led to substantial improvements. We are grateful to the ÖAD and the
FWF (grant number P2971-G24) for generous financial support during the time this paper was written.
† Philosophy Department (KGW), University of Salzburg, and Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy,
Ludwig-Maximilians University,
[email protected]
‡ Philosophy Department (KGW), University of Salzburg,
[email protected]
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popular.1 Authors such as Hartry Field have forcefully argued that the truth predicate
plays a key expressive role in our cognitive lives—one that requires that ϕ and ‘ϕ is true’
be intersubstitutable. In a slogan, truth must be naïve.2 As a result, classical logic must be
restricted on pain of triviality but—revisionary theorists argue—this is not too high a cost,
since classical principles are restricted where and only where they create trouble.3
Different non-classical theories of truth offer different explanations of the failure of
classical principles. For instance, sentences that do not satisfy all the principles of classical
logic have been characterised as ‘paradoxical’ (Kripke, 1975), ‘unstable’ (Zardini, 2011),
‘indeterminate’ (McGee, 1991; Field, 2008), ‘glutty’ (Beall, 2009), both ‘tolerantly assertible
and deniable’ (Cobreros et al., 2013), and so on. In turn, these notions have been thought
to give rise to specific revenge arguments: Liar-like reasonings aimed at showing that while
restricting certain classical principles allows non-classical theories to express a naïve notion
of truth (and perhaps other semantic notions), notions such as absolute indeterminacy
can only be expressed in those theories on pain of triviality.4 Revisionary theorists have
responded by rejecting the coherence of revenge-breeding notions. For instance, Field writes
that a unified notion of indeterminacy is ‘ultimately unintelligible’ (Field, 2008, p. 356);
similarly, Field, Jc Beall, and Graham Priest have all rejected the coherence of the notion of
Boolean negation.5 More generally, revisionary theorists typically dismiss semantic revenge
arguments, on the grounds that they assume (a non-instrumental reading of) classical
semantics. However, revisionary theorists either reject classical semantics outright (Ripley,
2013), or interpret it instrumentally,6 or argue that it should be no surprise that non-classical
notions cannot be expressed from within a classical framework (Beall, 2007a; Field, 2008).
More recently, it has been argued that revisionary approaches validating the classical
structural rules cannot express notions of naïve validity and that this fact should be taken to
favour a substructural approach—one that restricts some of the classical structural rules (for
discussion see e.g. (Shapiro, 2011a; Beall and Murzi, 2013; Zardini, 2014; Field, 2017; Murzi
and Rossi, 2017a). Substructural approaches can express naïve truth, Boolean negation, and
naïve validity (Zardini, 2011; Ripley, 2013; Rossi and Nicolai, 2017). Moreoever, they have
been argued to be ‘surprisingly strong’ and to approximate ‘the simplicity and symmetry
1 See
e.g. Priest (2006a); Field (2008); Beall (2009); Zardini (2011); Cobreros et al. (2012).
e.g. Field (2008, Ch. 13) and Beall (2009, §1.1).
3 See e.g. Priest (2006a, p. 221), Field (2008, p. 7), Beall (2009, pp. 111-2), Zardini (2011, pp. 518-9), Woods
(2018).
4 See e.g. Gauker (2006, §3), Priest (2007, pp. 230-1), Leitgeb (2007), and Rayo and Welch (2007), and Welch
(2014).
5 See e.g. Priest (2006b, Ch. 5), Field (2008, §21.1), Beall (2009, Ch. 3). The Boolean negation ¬ ϕ of ϕ takes
value 1 whenever ϕ has a value other than 1.
6 See e.g. Field (2008, p. 356) and Beall (2009, p. 39 and p. 57).
2 See
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of classical logic to an extent unmatched by its naive rivals’ (Zardini, 2011, p. 512). Indeed,
David Ripley has argued in a number of papers that his favourite nontransitive logic of
paradox just is classical logic.7
But are substructural approaches revenge immune? Is there a general revenge problem
afflicting all kinds of revisionary approaches? In this paper, we present a new proof-theoretic
revenge argument to the effect that the main revisionary approaches, structural and substructural alike, breed new paradoxes that they are unable to block. Our argument does not
rely on semantic notions and, unlike existing revenge arguments, it applies in a uniform
way to any minimally strong revisionary theory.
Our argument unfolds in two main stages. We start from the observation that current
revisionary theories feature sentences such as t = t that satisfy all the principles of classical
logic in a given theory S, and sentences such as λ that satisfy such principles in S only on
pain of triviality. We call sentences of the former kind unparadoxical-in-S and sentences of
the latter kind paradoxical-in-S. We argue that these notions are perfectly intelligible, even
by non-classical lights, and provide a general recipe for generating revenge paradoxes to
the effect that the main revisionary theories can only be closed under naïve principles for
paradoxicality and unparadoxicality on pain of triviality.
From a revisionary perspective, the most natural way out of the problem is to treat the
new paradoxes in the same way as the paradoxes of truth, i.e. by further weakening the
logic. Since our revenge paradoxes rely on very weak logical resources, the upshot is that
the revisionary approach is much more radical than it is usually thought.
To be sure, a more conservative reaction to the paradoxes of paradoxicality and unparadoxicality would be to question the intelligibility of these notions, much in the same way
as notions such as absolute indeterminacy have already been questioned. However, we
don’t think this would ultimately do. For one thing, the distinction between paradoxical and
unparadoxical sentences in our sense is a simple fact about revisionary theories—one that
encodes a minimal lesson to be learned from the semantic paradoxes, namely that, if truth is
naïve, sentences such as λ yield absurdity if reasoned with classically, while sentences such
as t = t don’t (see e.g. Zardini, 2011, p. 499). For another, the distinction plays a crucial role
in the main revisionary approaches to semantic paradox: it allows revisionary theories to
‘recapture’ classical theories such as classical mathematics, even if their logic is non-classical.
The plan of the paper is as follows. §§2-3 introduce the Liar Paradox and its four main
revisionary ways out. §4 offers a precise definition of classical recapture. §5 presents four
new revenge paradoxes, which trivialise the approaches introduced in §4. §§6-7 discuss the
relevance of our results and address potential objections. §8 concludes. The proofs of our
7 See
e.g. Ripley (2012) and Ripley (2013, p. 146).
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results are given in an Appendix.
2 The Liar Paradox
We begin with some technical preliminaries. Let LTr be a first-order language with identity whose logical vocabulary includes ¬, ∧, ∨, →, ∀, and ∃. In addition, LTr contains a
propositional absurdity constant ⊥, a propositional logical truth constant ⊤, and a predicate
Tr expressing truth. Terms and formulae of LTr are defined as usual. Closed formulae are
called ‘sentences’. We let t and s (possibly with indices) range over closed terms of LTr , and
use ϕ, ψ, and χ (possibly with indices) as schematic variables for sentences of LTr .
We require that any theory we consider satisfies two further requirements:
(i) There is a function p q such that for every sentence ϕ, pϕq is a closed term. Informally,
p q can be understood as a quote-name forming device, so that pϕq is a name of ϕ.
(ii) For every open formula ϕ( x ) there is a term t ϕ such that p ϕ(t ϕ /x )q is t ϕ , where
ϕ(t ϕ /x ) is the result of replacing every occurrence of x with t ϕ in ϕ.
In order to satisfy (i) and (ii), a theory has to interpret a modicum of arithmetic or syntax
theory. For simplicity, we only consider theories in which (i) and (ii) provably hold.
A sequent is an expression of the form Γ ⊢ ϕ, where Γ is finite multiset of sentences.8 The
multiset to the left of ⊢ is the antecedent of a sequent; the sentence on the right of ⊢ is its
consequent. We now recall the rules of classical propositional logic (henceforth, CPL).9 Our
axiomatisation is highly redundant, in order to simplify the definition of classical recapture
to be given in §4 below.10
ϕ⊢ϕ
SRef
Γ⊢χ
Γ, ϕ ⊢ χ
SWeak
Γ⊢ϕ
∆⊢ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ϕ ∧ ψ
Γ⊢ϕ
Γ ⊢ ϕ∨ψ
∨-I1
Γ ⊢ ϕ∧ψ
Γ⊢ϕ
∧-I
Γ⊢ψ
Γ ⊢ ϕ∨ψ
Γ, ϕ, ϕ ⊢ χ
Γ, ϕ ⊢ χ
∨-I2
SContr
∧-E1
Γ ⊢ ϕ∨ψ
8A
Γ⊢ϕ
∆, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
Γ ⊢ ϕ∧ψ
Γ⊢ψ
∆0 , ϕ ⊢ χ
Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 ⊢ χ
Cut
∧-E2
∆1 , ψ ⊢ χ
∨-E
multiset is just like a set, except that repetitions count. We use {} as brackets for sets, and [ ] as brackets
for multisets. Thus, { ϕ, ψ, ψ} and { ϕ, ψ} are the same set but [ ϕ, ψ, ψ] and [ ϕ, ψ] are distinct multisets. We omit
brackets from multisets in sequents, e.g. writing ϕ, ϕ ⊢ ψ instead of [ ϕ, ϕ] ⊢ ψ.
9 This suffices for the purposes of this paper: the results of §5 only require propositional logical rules.
For simplicity, we have opted for a single-conclusion natural deduction calculus in sequent-style in which
structural rules are explicitly formulated.
10 A double line indicates that a rule can be read in both directions.
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Γ, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Γ⊢ϕ→ψ
Γ ⊢ ϕ∧ψ
Γ ⊢ ¬(¬ ϕ ∨ ¬ψ)
Γ ⊢ ¬¬ ϕ
Γ⊢ϕ
DM1
Γ⊢ϕ
→-I
Γ ⊢ ϕ∨ψ
Γ ⊢ ¬(¬ ϕ ∧ ¬ψ)
¬¬-I/E
Γ, ϕ ⊢ ⊥
Γ ⊢ ¬ϕ
¬-I
DM2
∆⊢ϕ→ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
→-E
Γ ⊢ ¬( ϕ ∧ ψ)
DM3
Γ ⊢ ¬ ϕ ∨ ¬ψ
Γ⊢ϕ
∆ ⊢ ¬ϕ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ⊥
¬-E
Γ ⊢ ¬( ϕ ∨ ψ)
Γ ⊢ ¬ ϕ ∧ ¬ψ
Γ⊢⊥
Γ⊢ϕ
DM4
⊥-E
The sequents over the horizontal bar of a rule are its premisses; the sequent below is its
conclusion. A rule is an inference if its premises are empty, and a meta-inference otherwise.
In keeping with revisionary orthodoxy, we assume a naïve view of truth, i.e. that the
truth predicate satisfies the following truth rules (for convenience, we assume both positive
and negative forms):
Γ⊢ϕ
Γ ⊢ Tr(pϕq)
Tr-I
Γ ⊢ Tr(pϕq)
Γ⊢ϕ
Tr-E
Γ ⊢ ¬ϕ
Γ ⊢ ¬Tr(pϕq)
Γ ⊢ ¬Tr(pϕq)
Γ ⊢ ¬ϕ
¬-Tr-I
¬-Tr-E
Other forms of naïveté include the T-Schema
(T-Schema) Tr(pϕq) ↔ ϕ,
and transparency, viz. the intersubstitutivity salva veritate of Tr(pϕq) and ϕ in all non-opaque
contexts.
We are now in a position to present the Liar Paradox. Given our assumptions on LTr we
can prove that there is a sentence λ identical to ¬Tr(pλq), so that λ says of itself that it isn’t
true.11 We may then reason thus. We first prove Tr(pλq) ⊢ ⊥:
SRef
Tr(pλq) ⊢ Tr(pλq)
Tr-E
Tr(pλq) ⊢ λ
SRef
Definition of λ
Tr(pλq) ⊢ ¬Tr(pλq)
Tr(pλq) ⊢ Tr(pλq)
¬-E
Tr(pλq), Tr(pλq) ⊢ ⊥
SContr
Tr(pλq) ⊢ ⊥
Call the above derivation D0 . We then derive Tr(pλq) from D0 :
D0
Tr(pλq) ⊢ ⊥
¬-I
⊢ ¬Tr(pλq)
Definition of λ
⊢ λ
Tr-I
⊢ Tr(pλq)
11 More
precisely, λ is the sentence ¬Tr(tλ ), where tλ is a closed term such that tλ = p¬Tr(tλ )q. However,
in the theories we consider λ and ¬Tr(pλq) are always intersubstitutable, and we will therefore stick to this
simpler formulation. The same goes for the other ‘self-referential’ sentences to be introduced later.
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Call this derivation D1 . D0 and D1 can now be combined together to yield a proof of
absurdity, courtesy of Cut:
D1
⊢ Tr(pλq)
D0
Tr(pλq) ⊢ ⊥
⊢⊥
Cut
Given ⊥-E, it yields a proof of any sentence ϕ, thus trivialising any theory in which the
paradox can be derived.12
3 Four revisionary ways out
If naïve semantic principles such as Tr-I and Tr-E are non-negotiable, as revisionary theorists
typically maintain, then one must blame the logic in order to avoid non-triviality. To be sure,
such a revision is not to be taken lightly, and there is no shortage of classical treatments.13 But,
contemporary logical wisdom has it, these alternatives are dire, the naïve semantic principles
are non-negotiable, and there might be independent reasons for weakening classical logic in
the first place.
The Liar Paradox makes use of four main logical ingredients: ¬-I, ¬-E, SContr, and Cut.
Each of these rules can be, and indeed has been, questioned.14 We briefly consider the
corresponding four revisionary strategies, and introduce, for each such strategy, the most
representative corresponding formal theory.
3.1 Paracomplete and paraconsistent
The most popular revisionary approaches to paradoxes such as the Liar involve revising the
classical theory of negation and the conditional, according to which ¬ satisfies both ¬-I and
¬-E, and → satisfies both →-I and →-E. According to paracomplete theorists, sentences such
as λ are gappy: they either lack a semantic value, or they have an intermediate value between
12 Triviality
can also be established, without making use of ⊥-E, via Curry’s Paradox. The paradox involves
a sentence γ identical to Tr(pγq) → ψ (where ψ is any sentence). Given SRef, SContr, Cut, →-I, and →-E, a
Liar-like argument allows one to ‘prove’ ψ.
13 Examples of classical hierarchical treatments include (Tarski, 1936; Parsons, 1974; Glanzberg, 2004; Murzi
and Rossi, 2017b); for classical, non-hierarchical approaches see e.g. Feferman (1991); Leitgeb (2005); Halbach
(2011, §19.3-19.5).
14 The revisionary literature to date has almost exclusively focused on theories validating SRef. While it is
possible to devise a revenge paradox for SRef-free approaches along the lines of the ones to be developed in
§5, we don’t give the argument here for reasons of space. For a recent proposal involving a restriction of SRef,
see Rossi and Nicolai (2017).
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truth and falsity. According to paraconsistent theorists, sentences such as λ are glutty, i.e. they
are both true and false. We briefly review both approaches in turn.15
Paracomplete theorists typically advocate the so-called strong Kleene logic K3 (Kleene,
1952, p. 332-340), or some extension thereof. K3 is given by the rules of classical logic minus
¬-I and →-I. As a consequence, the Law of Excluded Middle
(LEM)
⊢ ϕ ∨ ¬ϕ
is not unrestrictedly valid either. We call K3TT the theory resulting from adding the naïve
truth rules to a sufficiently expressive theory based on the logic K3.
Dually, paraconsistent theories are typically based on the logic LP, or some extension
thereof (Asenjo, 1966; Priest, 1979). LP is given by the rules of classical logic minus ¬-E and
→-E. As a result, the Law of Non-contradiction
(LNC)
ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ ⊢ ⊥
must be given up. We call LPTT the theory resulting from adding the naïve truth rules to a
sufficiently expressive theory based on the logic LP.
3.2 Substructural approaches: non-contractive and non-transitive
We now turn to approaches which restrict the structural rules SContr and Cut. Non-contractive
approaches advocate a restriction of SContr. That is, according to these approaches the
fact that ψ follows from [ ϕ, ϕ] does not entail that ψ follows from [ ϕ] alone.16 Elia Zardini
(2011) proves syntactic consistency for a transparent theory of truth whose underlying logic
is a suitable strengthening of multiplicative affine linear logic (henceforth, MALL). MALL’s
propositional fragment is CPL without SContr and with ∨-E replaced by the following
weaker version:
Γ ⊢ ϕ∨ψ
∆0 , ϕ ⊢ χ0
∆1 , ψ ⊢ χ1
Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 ⊢ χ0 ∨ χ1
∨-EW .
We call the propositional fragment of Zardini’s theory MALLTT, for a sufficiently expressive
theory based on the logic MALL with transparent truth.17
15 Paracomplete
theories have been developed in Kripke (1975); Field (2008, 2013); Halbach and Horsten
(2006); Horsten (2012). For paraconsistent logics and their application to semantic paradoxes, see e.g. Asenjo
(1966); Priest (1979, 2006a); Goodship (1996); Beall (2009).
16 See e.g. Shapiro (2011a); Mares and Paoli (2014); Zardini (2011).
17 Zardini’s full theory IKTω , as he calls it, includes some controversial infinitary rules for the quantifiers
(Zardini, 2011, p. 508). The revenge paradox to be developed in §5.5 applies not only to Zardini’s full theory,
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Finally, non-transitive approaches recommend a restriction of Cut.18 In particular, Pablo
Cobreros, Paul Egré, Robert van Rooij, and David Ripley have recently put forward a nontransitive theory based on the non-transitive logic ST, which is essentially classical logic,
with all its theorems and inferences, but without the rules Cut, →-E, ∨-E, and ¬-E. The
theory, labelled STTT for strict tolerant transparent truth, allows for a uniform treatment
of the semantic and indeed soritical paradoxes. For simplicity, we consider a sufficiently
expressive theory of transparent truth, which we call STTT0 , given by a sub-logic of ST with
the addition of the naïve truth rules. More precisely, the logic of STTT0 is given by the rules
of CPL minus Cut, →-E, ∨-E, and ¬-E.
4 Classical recapture
The four families of non-classical theories we have just introduced all share a common
feature: despite their non-classicality, they have fully classical fragments. That is, all the
theories presented in §3 limit their restrictions to classical logic to some sentences.This is
not only a basic fact about those theories; it also allows one to apply those theories to
mathematics and science more generally. As it is sometimes said, non-classical theories
can recapture classical reasoning when needed.19 For instance, Field sees himself as being
engaged in the project of finding
a generalisation of classical logic that takes the classical rules to be appropriate
for dealing with ‘ordinary’ predicates (such as those of standard mathematics
and physics) but which allows only weaker rules when dealing with certain
‘extraordinary’ predicates [such as ‘true’]. (Field, 2008, p. 7)
Classical logic is restricted where, and only where, it creates trouble.20
To see how non-classical theories recapture classical theories, our starting point is a
particularly simple way of characterising the classical fragment of K3TT, LPTT, MALLTT,
STTT0 , and their extensions. Such theories all enjoy the following informal property:
but also a version of his theory in which the conjunction and disjunction operators are additive, i.e. governed
by context-sharing rules, and the quantifiers are governed by standard, finitary rules (for discussion, see
Zardini, 2011, pp. 509-10).
18 See for instance Weir (2005); Ripley (2012); Cobreros et al. (2013).
19 See e.g. Priest (2006a, p. 221), Field (2008), Beall (2009, pp. 111-2), Zardini (2011).
20 Field’s quote is strictly speaking misleading: current non-classical approaches to semantic paradox seek to
preserve classical logic also for unproblematic uses of the truth predicate, such as ‘All the theorems of Peano
Arithmetic are true’, ‘If p65 + 57 = 125q is true, then p65 + 57 6= 125q is not true’, and so on. See also fn. ??
below.
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(Classicality Principles) There are finitely many classically valid principles such that a
sentence satisfies such principles only if it satisfies all classical principles.
We can then say that a theory recaptures classical logic if it is closed under weaker versions of
classical rules which, whenever some extra conditions are satisfied, reduce to their classical
counterparts. The following definition formally captures this idea.
Definition 4.1 (Classical recapture). Let S be a non-trivial theory. Then, S enjoys a classical
recapture property if it is P-classical recapturing, for some classically valid principle P invalid
in S. The following classical recapture properties correspond to the revisionary approaches
reviewed in §3.1-§3.2.
− S is LEM-classical recapturing if it is closed under the rules of CPL, where →-I and ¬-I
are replaced by the following weaker versions:
Γ, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Γ, ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ϕ → ψ
Γ, ϕ ⊢ ⊥
Γ, ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ¬ ϕ
→-IW
¬-IW
− S is LNC-classical recapturing if it is closed under the rules of CPL, where →-E and ¬-E
are replaced by the following weaker versions:21
Γ⊢ϕ
∆⊢ϕ→ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ ∨ ( ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ)
Γ⊢ϕ
∆ ⊢ ¬ϕ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ⊥ ∨ ( ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ)
→-EW
¬-EW
− S is LContr-classical recapturing,
⊢ ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ ),
(LContr)
if it is closed under the rules of CPL, where SContr is replaced by the following weaker
version:
Γ, ϕ, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Γ, ϕ, ϕ → ϕ ∧ ϕ ⊢ ψ
SContrW
− S is Cut-classical recapturing if it is closed under the rules of CPL minus Cut, where →-E,
¬-E, and ∨-E are replaced by the following weaker versions:
21 Our
characterisation of classical recapture in LP is very much in line with an account discussed in Priest
(2006a, pp. 117-8) and Beall (2011). See also fn. ?? below.
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Γ⊢ϕ
∆⊢ϕ→ψ
Γ, ∆, ϕ ⊢ ψ
→-EWC
Γ⊢ϕ
∆ ⊢ ¬ϕ
Γ, ∆, ϕ ⊢ ⊥
Γ ⊢ ϕ∨ψ
∆0 , ϕ ⊢ χ
∆1 , ψ ⊢ χ
Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 , ϕ, ψ ⊢ χ
¬-EWC
∨-EWC
We now show that classical logic can be recaptured in the sense of Definition 4.1, in each of
the non-classical approaches introduced in §3. We do so by adding the classical recapturing
rules to our target theories and by then establishing that classical logic holds for ϕ whenever
the relevant classical principles hold for ϕ.
Definition 4.2 (K3TT+ ). K3TT+ is the result of adding →-IW and ¬-IW to K3TT.
By definition, K3TT+ is LEM-classical recapturing. To see that full CPL holds for ϕ in K3TT+
given ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ, it is sufficient to notice that whenever ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ is derivable in K3TT+ , then
both →-I and ¬-I hold in K3TT+ . More precisely, if Γ, ϕ ⊢ ⊥ is derivable together with
ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ, then we can apply ¬-IW and apply Cut to ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ, thus deriving Γ ⊢ ¬ ϕ, i.e. the
conclusion of full ¬-I. Similarly for →-I.
Definition 4.3 (LPTT+ ). LPTT+ is the result of adding →-EW and ¬-EW to LPTT.
By definition, LPTT+ is LNC-classical recapturing. As above, to see that full CPL holds for
ϕ in LPTT+ if ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥ does, it is sufficient to notice that full →-E and ¬-E hold for
ϕ in LPTT+ whenever ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥ is derivable in LPTT+ . More precisely, if Γ ⊢ ϕ and
∆ ⊢ ϕ → ψ are derivable together with ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥, one can derive Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ courtesy of
→-EW and ∨-E. At a glance:
Γ⊢ϕ
∆⊢ϕ→ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ ∨ ( ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ)
→-EW
ψ⊢ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
SRef
ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ ⊢ ⊥
ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ ⊢ ψ
⊥-E
∨-E
The reasoning for ¬-E is analogous.
Definition 4.4 (MALLTT+ ). MALLTT+ is the result of adding SContrW to MALLTT.
As above, by definition MALLTT+ is LContr-classical recapturing. To see that classical logic
holds for ϕ if LContr holds for ϕ, we reason in two steps, keeping in mind that MALL is
classical logic minus SContr and with ∨-E replaced with ∨-EW .22 First, it is immediate to see
that whenever LContr holds for ϕ, then SContr also holds:
22 We
are adapting Theorem 3.19 of Zardini (2011) to our framework.
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Γ, ϕ, ϕ ⊢ ψ
⊢ ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ)
Γ, ϕ, ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ) ⊢ ψ
Γ, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Second, we show that show that
(RContr)
SContrW
Cut
⊢ ( ϕ ∨ ϕ) → ϕ
is derivable from SContr and that, in turn, ∨-E is derivable from RContr. The following
derivation establishes the first claim:
SRef
ϕ∨ϕ ⊢ ϕ∨ϕ
SRef
SRef
SRef
¬ϕ ⊢ ¬ϕ
¬ϕ ⊢ ¬ϕ
¬ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ ⊢ ¬ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ
ϕ ∨ ϕ ⊢ ¬(¬ ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ)
∧-I
¬ ϕ, ¬ ϕ ⊢ ¬ ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ
¬ ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ, ϕ ∨ ϕ ⊢ ⊥
Cut
ϕ ∨ ϕ, ¬ ϕ, ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥
SContr
ϕ ∨ ϕ, ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥
¬-I
ϕ ∨ ϕ ⊢ ¬¬ ϕ
¬¬-E
ϕ∨ϕ ⊢ ϕ
→-I
⊢ ( ϕ ∨ ϕ) → ϕ
The second claim is proved as follows:
Γ ⊢ χ0 ∨ χ1
∆0 , χ0 ⊢ ϕ
∆1 , χ1 ⊢ ϕ
∨-EW
Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 ⊢ ϕ ∨ ϕ
Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 ⊢ ϕ
⊢ ( ϕ ∨ ϕ) → ϕ
DM2
¬-E
→-E
Putting the pieces together, it follows that, if LContr holds for ϕ in MALLTT+ , then full
classical logic holds for ϕ.
Definition 4.5 (STTT0+ ). STTT0+ is the result of adding →-EWC , ¬-EWC , and ∨-EWC to STTT0 .
By definition, STTT0+ is Cut-classical recapturing. It can be verified that, whenever Cut holds
for ϕ, full classical logic holds for ϕ. To see this, consider →-E and suppose Cut holds for ϕ.
Then, given ⊢ ϕ, full →-E is derived as follows:
Γ⊢ϕ
∆⊢ϕ→ψ
→-EWC
Γ, ∆, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Γ⊢ϕ
Cut
Γ, Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
(possibly multiple uses of) SContr
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
A similar reasoning applies to ¬-EWC and ∨-EWC .23
23 We
should mention at least one alternative proposal for recapturing classical logic within a non-classical
theory, viz. Priest’s minimally inconsistent LP, or mLP for short (Priest, 2006a, p. 222 and ff). mLP is a nonmonotonic logic that behaves like classical logic in the case of arguments with consistent premises and behaves
like LP in the case of arguments with inconsistent premises. As far as we know, mLP has not been axiomatised.
However, our account of classical recapture can be extended to mLP, provided such a logic can be given an
axiomatisation satisfying Classicality Principles.
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The classical recapturing properties of the non-classical theories introduced in §3 are at
the heart of our general revenge argument, to which we now turn.
5 Revenge
Revenge arguments fall into two broad categories: object-linguistic and meta-theoretic.24 Metatheoretic revenge arguments point to the inexpressibility in a theory S of notions definable in
S’s meta-theory (which is typically classical). They are standardly dismissed on the grounds
that it is no surprise that classical notions are not expressible in a non-classical theory.25
Object-linguistic revenge arguments typically point to the inexpressibility in a theory S
of some notion N that plays some explanatory or expressive role in S. Notions such as
indeterminacy (Field, 2007, 2008) and instability (Zardini, 2011) are cases in point.26 The
revenge paradoxes to be developed in this section are of the second, object-linguistic kind.
In particular, they don’t rely on classical semantic notions, and they apply to theories (such
as the one developed in Zardini, 2011) for which no semantics is known. §§5.1-5.2 motivate
naïve principles for paradoxicality and unparadoxicality. §§5.3-5.6 introduce our revenge
paradoxes.
5.1 Paradoxicality and unparadoxicality
General approaches to revenge are discussed in Beall (2007c), Priest (2007), Shapiro (2011b),
and Scharp (2013, §4.3). For instance, Graham Priest argues that
[t]here is, in fact, a uniform method for constructing the revenge paradox—or
extended paradox, as it is called sometimes. All semantic accounts have a bunch
of Good Guys (the true, the stably true, the ultimately true, or whatever). These
are the ones that we target when we assert. Then there’s the Rest. The extended
liar is a sentence, produced by some diagonalising construction, which says of
itself that it’s in the Rest. The diagonal construction [. . .] may then play havoc.
This shows, incidentally, that the extended paradox is not really a different
paradox. The pristine liar is the result of the construction when the theoretical
framework is the standard one (all sentences are true or false, not both, and
24 For
recent discussion of revenge, both object-linguistic and meta-theoretic, see e.g. Beall (2007a); Field
(2007); Shapiro (2011b); ?. For general background on revenge, see the essays in Beall (2007c) and Scharp (2013,
Chapter 8).
25 See e.g. Field (2008, §21.1) and Beall (2009, §3.4).
26 Field’s theory involves a hierarchy of ever stronger notions of indeterminacy, whereby sentences such as λ
can be only said to be indeterminateα , for some level α in the hierarchy (Field, 2007).
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not neither) [. . . ]. ‘Extended paradoxes’ are simply the results of applying the
construction in different theoretical frameworks. (Priest, 2007, p. 226)
We are sympathetic to Priest’s claim that revenge paradoxes are structurally similar to the
run of the mill semantic paradoxes. However, his revenge recipe only describes extremely
general features of revenge arguments and cannot be used to actually generate in a uniform
way revenge paradoxes for a wide range of theories. Our aim in what follows is to provide
a general revenge strategy for constructing revenge paradoxes for several non-classical
theories satisfying Classicality principles, including some of the non-classical theories
defended by Priest.
Our starting point is the distinction, present in each of the theories presented in §3,
between sentences that satisfy all the principles of classical logic and sentences that do so
on pain of triviality. More precisely, let S be a P0 , . . . , Pn -classical recapturing, non-trivial
theory. We then say that a sentence ϕ is paradoxical-in-S if and only if ⊥ follows in S from
the assumption that ϕ satisfies P0 , . . . , Pn ; and that a sentence ϕ is unparadoxical-in-S if and
only if it satisfies P0 , . . . , Pn in S.27 Paradoxicality and unparadoxicality so understood are
intelligible notions at the core of the revisionary approach to semantic paradox. In keeping
with the revisionist’s treatment of truth, we treat them as object-linguistic predicates, Par and
Un.28
5.2 The expressive role of Par and Un
Revisionary theorists typically give the semantics of a language L in L. Here are two
representative quotes:
If the formal language is to provide an adequate explication of the informal
language that we use, it must contain its own metalanguage. (Reinhardt, 1986,
pp. 227-9)
[M]y claim will be that there are languages that are sufficiently powerful to serve
as their own meta-languages. (Field, 2008, p. 18)
They further argue that the notion of truth for L to be captured in L must be naïve.29 For
instance, the following reasoning is taken to motivate the unrestricted rule Tr-E:
27 Our
notion of paradoxicality-in-S is closely related to Jc Beall’s notion of a trivialiser for S (Beall, 2015).
the chosen theory S will always be clear from context, we simply write Par( x ) for paradoxicality and
Un(x) for unparadoxicality.
29 For a general case for naïve truth principles, see Field (2008, p. 209 and ff.) and Beall (2009, §1.1).
28 Since
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Agreement. All the theorems of Peano Arithmetic are true. ϕ is a theorem of Peano Arithmetic. Therefore, ϕ is true. Therefore, ϕ.
A parallel reasoning is taken to establish Tr-I:
Disagreement. Everything Lois says is not true. Lois says ϕ. Therefore, ϕ is not true.
Therefore, ¬ ϕ.
Similar considerations can be put forward for paradoxicality and unparadoxicality. For
reasons of space, we only give one example, in the context of a paracomplete theory of naïve
truth S. Consider the following case:
The logic student. Lois is a logic student who is learning how to reason in S. She (mistakenly) assumes λ ∨ ¬λ. As a result, she carries out the Liar reasoning in S and derives
⊥. She concludes that assuming that λ satisfies LEM trivialises S. As she puts it, λ is
paradoxical, i.e. Lois asserts Par(pλq).
In the above example, Lois adopts the following principle: that if S derives the sequent
ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥, then it also derives the sequent ⊢ Par(pϕq). We call this principle Parintroduction, or Par-I for short. The principle immediately rules out the possibility of interpreting paradoxicality by means of a conditional. That is, given Par-I, Par( x ) cannot be
interpreted as (slightly abusing notation) Tr( x ∨ ¬ x ) → ⊥, since in a paracomplete setting
→-I is not unrestrictedly valid and, as a result, Tr(pλq ∨ ¬pλq) → ⊥ cannot in general be
inferred from a derivation of ⊥ in S from λ ∨ ¬λ.
It might be tempting to interpret Par as derivability in S instead. After all, if S interprets a modicum of arithmetic, if there is derivation in S of ⊥ from λ ∨ ¬λ, then S derives
DerS (pλ ∨ ¬λq, p⊥q), where DerS is a standard, arithmetically definable derivability predicate for S. However, this can’t be either, as shown by the following scenario:
Misguided reasoning. Clark reasons in S and assumes that everything Lois says is paradoxical. Lois asserts that ϕ. As a result, Clark infers that ϕ is paradoxical. However,
Clark also proves that ϕ satisfies LEM, and hence all the principles of classical logic.
From his claim that ϕ is paradoxical, i.e. such that ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ entails ⊥, and his proof of
ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ, Clark concludes ⊥.
The above scenario requires the following elimination rule: from Par(pϕq) and ‘ϕ satisfies
LEM’, one may infer ⊥. We call this principle Par-elimination, or Par-E for short. Just like Par-I
rules out interpreting paradoxicality by means of a conditional, Par-E rules out interpreting
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such a notion as derivability-in-S. This is essentially a consequence of Löb’s Theorem, as we
will see more fully in §6.1 below.
We conclude that paradoxicality-in-S must be expressed via a single, primitive predicate
Par, obeying Par-I and Par-E. Similar arguments apply to unparadoxicality-in-S, and to
paraconsistent, non-contractive, and non-transitive theories.
The notions of paradoxicality and unparadoxicality now give rise to a revenge argument, to
the effect that any theory extending the theories presented in §3 expresses such notions only
if it is trivial. In particular, consistent theories cannot express the notion of paradoxicality,
while inconsistent theories cannot express the dual notion of unparadoxicality. We consider
+
theories formulated in the language LTr
obtained by adding Par and Un to LTr . We extend
+
to LTr and the theories formulated in it all the conventions and requirements stated in §2 for
languages and theories.
5.3 Paracomplete revenge
We focus on K3TT+ -based theories as our representative, catch-all paracomplete theories.
Since paracomplete theories reject LEM for ‘paradoxical’ sentences and since K3TT+ is
LEM-classical recapturing, the rules for Par are as follows:30
Γ, ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥
Γ ⊢ Par(pϕq)
LEM-Par-I
Γ ⊢ Par(pϕq)
∆ ⊢ ϕ ∨ ¬ϕ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ⊥
LEM-Par-E
Definition 5.1 (K3TTP). K3TTP is the theory resulting from closing K3TT+ under LEM-Par-I
and LEM-Par-E.
Proposition 5.2. K3TTP is trivial, and so is the closure under LEM-Par-I and LEM-Par-E of any
theory extending K3TT+ .
It follows from Proposition 5.2 that (among others) the theories developed in Field (2002,
2008, 2013) and Yablo (2003) cannot express the notion ‘ϕ yields absurdity if ϕ ∨ ¬ ϕ holds’,
on pain of triviality.
5.4 Paraconsistent revenge
Consider now paraconsistent approaches. In keeping with our account of classical recapture,
we focus on LPTT+ -based theories. We show that no extension of LPTT+ can express the
30 With
the exception of non-contractive theories, all the rules for Par and Un presented in this paper can be
given a context-sharing formulation without affecting our revenge paradoxes.
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notion of unparadoxicality introduced in §5.1. Keeping in mind that LPTT+ is LNC-classical
recapturing, a sentence ϕ is unparadoxical in LPTT+ if LNC holds for ϕ, i.e. if LPTT+ proves
ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥. Conversely, if ϕ is unparadoxical in LPTT+ , then LNC holds for ϕ, i.e. if LPTT+
proves ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ from Γ, ∆, then it also proves ⊥ from the same multi-set of assumptions.
More formally:
Γ, ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥
Γ ⊢ Un(pϕq)
LNC-Un-I
Γ ⊢ Un(pϕq)
∆ ⊢ ϕ ∧ ¬ϕ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ⊥
LNC-Un-E.
Definition 5.3 (LPTTU). LPTTU is the theory resulting from closing LPTT+ under LNC-Un-I
and LNC-Un-E.
Proposition 5.4. LPTTU is trivial, and so is the closure under LNC-Un-I and LNC-Un-E of any
theory extending LPTT+ .
It follows from Proposition 5.4 that the theories developed in Priest (2006b) and Beall (2009,
2011) cannot express the notion ‘ϕ behaves classically if ϕ ∧ ¬ ϕ ⊢ ⊥ holds’, on pain of
triviality.
5.5 Non-contractive revenge
Now to contraction-free approaches. Because of its prominence, we focus on Zardini’s noncontractive theory, but our result generalises. We begin by recalling classical recapture in a
contraction-free setting. As we have seen in §4 (Definition 4.4 and subsequent remarks), full
SContr and ∨-E, and hence full classical logic, hold for ϕ in MALLTT+ whenever MALLTT+
derives ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ). Keeping in mind that, according to SContr-free wisdom, SContr is the
culprit of the semantic paradoxes, the paradoxicality predicate can now be interpreted as
follows: if absurdity is derivable from the assumption that ϕ satisfies ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ), then ϕ is
paradoxical. Conversely, if ϕ is paradoxical and ϕ satisfies ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ), then ⊥ is derivable.
This informal reasoning can be formalised thus. Let [ ϕ]n be the multiset consisting of n
occurrences of ϕ. Moreover, let us assume that Γ in LC-Par-I does not contain instances of
ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ), and let m ≥ 1. Then, paradoxicality in a non-contractive setting is characterised
by the following rules:
Γ, [ ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ)]m ⊢ ⊥
Γ ⊢ Par(pϕq)
LC-Par-I
Γ ⊢ Par(pϕq)
∆ ⊢ ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ)
Γ, ∆n+1 ⊢ ⊥
LC-Par-E
where n is the highest number of occurrences of ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ) occurring on the left-hand
side of the sequents in the subderivation of Γ ⊢ Par(pϕq) if Γ is non-empty, and 0 otherwise.
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Intuitively, the I-rule tells us that, if contracting m times on ϕ yields absurdity (where m
contractions on ϕ are represented by [ ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ)]m ), then ϕ is paradoxical. Conversely,
the E-rule says that, if ϕ is paradoxical, then the assumption that ϕ can be contracted on (at
least as many times as it is needed to declare it paradoxical) yields absurdity.
Definition 5.5 (MALLTTP). MALLTTP is the theory resulting from closing MALLTT+ under
LC-Par-I and LC-Par-E.
Proposition 5.6. MALLTTP is trivial, and so is the closure under LC-Par-I and LC-Par-E of any
theory extending MALLTT+ .
It follows from Proposition 5.6 that (among others) the theory developed in Zardini (2011)
cannot express the notion ‘ϕ yields absurdity if [ ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ)]m holds’, on pain of triviality.
It might be objected the non-contractive theorist who rejects contraction in all its forms
has a reason to reject contracting on sentences of the form ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ), and hence to
reject LC-Par-I, which allows one to discharge multiple occurrences of ϕ → ( ϕ ∧ ϕ). The
resulting conception of paradoxicality would be problematic, however. It would commit
the non-contractive theorist to distinguishing between different numbers of applications
of SContr in a derivation, which would sit poorly with her diagnosis of what goes wrong
in paradoxical derivations. According to non-contractive wisdom, indiscriminate uses of
SContr must be rejected in general. That is, non-contractive theorists disallow the following
generalised version of SContr:
Γ, [ ϕ] j ⊢ ∆
Γ, [ ϕ]i
SContr⋆
⊢∆
(where j > i),
according to which, if ∆ follows from Γ and i occurrences of ϕ, then ∆ follows from Γ and
at least one occurrence of ϕ. The idea that if SContr⋆ applied to ϕ leads to ⊥ then ϕ is noncontractable is at the heart of the non-contractive approach to semantic paradox: one must
disallow whatever number of applications of SContr to ϕ lead to ⊥ in a paradoxical derivation.
This is captured by our rule LC-Par-I, but cannot be expressed by the non-contractive theorist
who expresses paradoxicality by means of denumerably many paradoxicality predicates.
5.6 Non-transitive revenge
We finally turn to non-transitive approaches. We focus on the theory STTT0+ but, again, our
results generalise. To begin with, we notice that, in STTT0+ , full classical logic holds for ϕ
whenever Cut does (see Definition 4.5 and subsequent remarks). This in turn justifies the
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following characterisation of unparadoxicality. On the one hand, if ϕ is ‘cuttable on’, i.e. if
the conclusion of an instance of Cut applied to ϕ is derivable from its premises, then ϕ is
unparadoxical. On the other, if ϕ is unparadoxical and the premises of an instance of Cut
applied to ϕ are derivable, so is their conclusion.
Our revenge argument against STTT0+ shows that such a theory cannot express unparadoxicality so understood. It makes use of higher-order rules: rules that allow one to
discharge entire sequents, as well as sentences.31 We are now in a position to formulate the
rules governing the unparadoxicality predicate:
Γ⊢ϕ
n
..
.
∆, ϕ ⊢ ψ
..
n
.
..
.
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
Γ, ∆ ⊢ Un(pϕq)
Cut-Un-I, n
Γ ⊢ Un(pϕq)
∆0 ⊢ ϕ
Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 ⊢ ψ
∆1 , ϕ ⊢ ψ
Cut-Un-E,
where the box left of the discharge line in Cut-Un-I signals that the rule-assumptions Γ ⊢ ϕ
and ∆, ϕ ⊢ ψ may not be discharged vacuously.32 Again, the rules are justified by the
account of classical recapture given in §4 (see especially Definition 4.5). Cut-Un-I says that,
if ϕ is ‘cuttable on’, then it is unparadoxical. Conversely, Cut-Un-E tells us that, if ϕ is
unparadoxical (given Γ), and hence ‘cuttable’, and both ∆0 ⊢ ϕ and ∆1 , ϕ ⊢ ψ are provable,
then Γ, ∆0 , ∆1 ⊢ ψ follows.
Definition 5.7 (STTTU0 ). STTTU0 is the theory resulting from closing STTT0+ under CutUn-I and Cut-Un-E.
Proposition 5.8. STTTU0 is trivial, and so is the closure under Cut-Un-I and Cut-Un-E of any
theory extending STTT0+ .
It follows from Proposition 5.8 that (among others) the theories developed in Ripley (2012);
Cobreros et al. (2013) cannot express the notion ‘ϕ behaves classically given a derivation of
⊢ ψ from ⊢ ϕ and ϕ ⊢ ψ’, on pain of triviality.
We notice that the derivation of ⊥ in the proof of Proposition 5.8 (see Appendix) is
not normal, since it involves a use of Cut-Un-E immediately after a use of Cut-Un-I.33 This
31 To
our knowledge, higher-order rules were first introduced by Peter Schroeder-Heister (1984, pp. 1284-5),
who pointed out that if sentence-assumptions are technically temporary axioms, nothing should prevent one
from also making use of rule-assumptions, understood as temporary rules (in our setting, such temporary rules
are sequent-assumptions).
32 See Tennant (2012, pp. 4-5).
33 The derivation is also non-normal in the sense of Tennant (2012), since the major premise of Cut-Un-E in
the last step of the derivation has non-trivial proof work above it.
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suggests that, unlike STTT0+ , Neil Tennant’s Core Logic, a logic in which all proofs are
normal proofs, may support the rules for naïve truth together with Cut-Un-I and Cut-Un-E,
in keeping with Tennant’s conjecture that the semantic paradoxes all involve derivations
that cannot be brought into normal form (Tennant, 1982, 2015).34 Does it follow that our
revenge argument doesn’t apply to the non-transitive approach defended in Tennant (2015)?
Tennant (2015, p. 593) advocates a positive answer. However, we do not share Tennant’s
optimism. In the proof of Proposition 5.8, we give normal proofs of ⊢ Un(pςq), ⊢ ς, and
ς ⊢ ⊥, where ς is ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq). That is, Tennant’s theory proves both that ϕ is
‘cuttable’ and the premises of a cut on ϕ. Yet, one cannot cut on ϕ in such a theory. This
means that Un(pϕq), viz. that ϕ is ‘cuttable’, no longer has its intended meaning in Tennant’s
framework. The framework is not trivial, but non-triviality is only restored at the price of
expressive incompleteness.
6 What our results show
The paradoxes of §§5.3-5.6 make use of logical rules that are valid in the theories they
trivialise. Insofar as the theories introduced in §3 are representative of the revisionary
approach to semantic paradox, it follows that revisionary treatments of the Liar Paradox
and of other run of the mill paradoxes don’t apply to the paradoxes of §§5.3-5.6. Yet the
notions of paradoxicality and unparadoxicality codify a minimal lesson to be drawn from
the semantic paradoxes: that given the naïve truth rules, sentences such as λ satisfy all the
classical rules only on pain of triviality, whereas sentences such as t = t unproblematically
satisfy those rules. The results of §§5.3-5.6 show that the expression of such a truism is
precluded to most non-classical theorists, on pain of adopting an extremely weak, and
possibly unworkable, logic. For instance, it is a consequence of the proof of Proposition
5.2 that a paracomplete logic of paradox cannot contain all of SRef, SContr, →-E, and ∨-I.
Likewise, it follows from the proof of Proposition 5.8 that a non-transitive logic of paradox
cannot contain SRef, SContr, the rules for conjunction, and a very weak form of negation
34 Core Logic is a non-transitive logic all of whose proofs are in normal form. The logic comes in a constructive
and in a non-constructive variety; our remarks apply to both. As Tennant (2015) observes, the derivations of
semantic paradoxes such as the Liar are all invalid in Core Logic supplemented by suitable rules for naïve truth.
More precisely, just like in STTT0+ , the final use of Cut in the paradoxical derivations (or of the unrestricted
¬-E and →-E) is disallowed, on the grounds that it would bring in non-normality. Although Tennant doesn’t
prove consistency for a theory of naïve truth whose underlying logic is Core Logic, it can be shown that the
consistency proofs available for STTT (Cobreros et al., 2013; Ripley, 2012) immediately extend to the theory
given by closing Core Logic under the rules for naïve truth (this follows from the fact that Core Logic is a
relevant subsystem of the logic ST). This in turn answers the technical question raised in Tennant (2015, §4.3.4)
whether one can prove the non-triviality of the approach he recommends.
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elimination. And so on. Our revenge strategy is perfectly general. Although the paradoxes of
§§5.3-5.6 make use of theory-specific notions of paradoxicality and unparadoxicality, it can
be shown that the naïve rules for Par and Un are all instances of a more general template.35
Solomon Feferman (1984, p. 95) once wrote, referring to theories of truth based on the
logic K3, that ‘nothing like sustained ordinary reasoning can be carried out’ in them. While
his remark may apply to weak logics such as K3 and LP, it may be thought to be unfair as a
criticism of the stronger non-classical theories developed since 1984, such as the structural
ones given in Field (2002, 2008, 2017) and Beall (2009), and the substructural ones given in
Zardini (2011) and Cobreros et al. (2012). Even classical theorists concede that, pace Feferman,
some such theories are surprisingly strong. Vann McGee (2010), for instance, reports to have
been ‘astonished’ by the ‘combination of transparency and logical strength’ exhibited by
Field’s paracomplete theory.
The results of §§5.3-5.6 vindicate the spirit of Feferman’s remark. Just like classical
logic, and many other strong logics, are known to be incompatible with naïve truth, our
results show that a wide range of reasonably strong non-classical logics are incompatible
with naïve paradoxicality and unparadoxicality. And, as we argued in §§5.1-5.2, just like
there are strong reasons for wanting truth to be naïve, and hence to adopt one of the nonclassical logics introduced in §4 (or some extension thereof), there are parallel reasons for
wanting paradoxical and unparadoxicality to be also naïve, and hence to adopt a weaker still
non-classical logic—one in which the arguments of §§5.3-5.6 no longer go through. By the
revisionary theorist’s own lights, strong non-classical theories such as Field’s are ultimately
incompatible with the project of giving the semantics of a language L in L.
In what follows, we briefly explore the relation between our results and Löb’s Theorem
(§6.1). We argue that the naïve principles for paradoxicality and unparadoxicality can be
seen to be compatible with classical limitative results such as Löb’s Theorem just in the
same way as a naïve notion of truth can be seen to be compatible with classical limitative
results such as Tarski’s Theorem. We then point to a parallelism between our arguments
and a recent revenge argument for classical theories (§6.2).
6.1 Paradoxicality and derivability
It could be argued that the results of §§5.3-5.6 are hardly surprising, on the grounds that
the eliminations rules for Par and Un are unacceptable in the lights of Löb’s Theorem. More
precisely, let S be a theory satisfying the Hilbert-Bernays conditions for a predicate ProvS
35 For
reasons of space, we leave out the precise formulation of the template.
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expressing standard provability-in-S.36 It is a consequence of Löb’s Theorem that, if S
proves every instance of ProvS (pϕq) → ϕ, then it also proves any sentence ϕ. Consider
the paradoxicality predicate Par. Its rules can be rewritten using a two-place derivability
predicate DerS ( x, y) expressing that y is derivable from x in S. For instance, the LEM-Par
rules can be seen as instances of the following general rules:
Γ, ϕ ⊢ ψ
Γ ⊢ DerS (pϕq, pψq)
DerS -I
Γ ⊢ DerS (pϕq, pψq)
Γ, ∆ ⊢ ψ
∆⊢ϕ
DerS -E
However, DerS -E entails
DerS (p⊤q, pψq) → ψ,
which is equivalent to ProvS (pψq) → ψ, from which ψ is derivable in S via Löb’s Theorem. It
is now natural to object that the rules for Par and Un employed in the results of §§5.3-5.6 are
but special cases of naïve rules for provability-in-S that are already known to be unacceptable
because of Löb’s Theorem.37
The foregoing reasoning requires that paradoxicality-in-S be interpreted as standard
derivability-in-S. More precisely, it assumes that the paradoxicality and unparadoxicality
predicates be interpreted by means of an arithmetically definable derivability predicate
DerS satisfying versions of the Hilbert-Bernays derivability conditions. On such a construal,
the introduction rules for Par and Un are arithmetically derivable, while the elimination
rules only hold on pain of triviality. However, we have argued in 5.2 that Par is not to be
interpreted via a standard derivability predicate: scenarios such as Misguided reasoning
rule out this possible interpretation.
If it is insisted that paradoxicality and unparadoxicality are to be interpreted via a
standard derivability predicate, and therefore fail to obey their elimination rules because of
Löb’s Theorem, then a parallel argument can be given that truth is to be interpreted via some
arithmetically definable predicate, and therefore fails to obey the naïve truth rules, because
of Tarski’s Theorem. For instance, it might be pointed out that sufficiently strong theories
validate all instances of the T-Schema restricted to Σn -sentences of the base language. More
precisely, they validate all instances of the following schema:
ϕ ↔ TrΣn (pϕq),
for ϕ a Σn -sentence of the base language (for any given n) and TrΣn a predicate definable in
the base theory. To be sure, restricting the T-Schema to Σn -sentences is inadequate for the
36 Standard
provability predicates satisfy the Hilbert-Bernays ‘derivability conditions’, i.e. predicate analogues of the rules of necessitation and of the K and 4 axioms of modal logic.
37 For more discussion see Field (2017) and Murzi and Rossi (2017a).
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purpose of giving the semantics of a language L in L, and for fulfilling the expressive role
of ‘true’.38 However, it might be argued, the same holds for any restricted notion of paradoxicality or unparadoxicality. For instance, if Par-I is restricted, some sentences that behave
non-classically in S cannot be said to be paradoxical and, if Par-E is restricted, one cannot
infer from the claim that ϕ is paradoxical that ϕ satisfes S’s classical recapturing principles
only on pain of triviality. Just like it is possible to validate all instances of the T-Schema in
spite of Tarski’s Theorem, it is also it is possible, and consistent with Löb’s Theorem, to
non-trivially have all instances of the naïve rules for paradoxicality and unparadoxicality,
provided one adopts a very weak non-classical logic.
6.2 Non-classical and classical revenge
The revenge paradoxes for non-classical theories given in §§5.3-5.6 are closely related to a
general revenge argument for classical theories recently introduced by Andrew Bacon (2015).
Bacon’s starting point is analogous to ours: while non-classical theories of truth restrict
the application of classical logic to some sentences, classical theories of truth restrict the
application of naïve truth-theoretic principles to some sentences.39 In order to express such a
distinction, Bacon introduces a ‘healthiness’ predicate H satisfying the following scheme:
(SRT) H(pϕq) → (Tr(pϕq) ↔ ϕ).
That is, Bacon characterises the healthy sentences as those that satisfy naïve truth-theoretic
principles such as the T-Schema. Bacon then shows that every (sufficiently expressive)
classical theory of truth that includes all instances of SRT proves sentences that it also
proves to be unhealthy, i.e. proves ϕ ∧ ¬H(pϕq) for some ϕ. Under the assumption (which
Bacon does not endorse) that H satisfies the following necessitation rule
⊢ϕ
⊢ H(pϕq)
(H-NEC),
Bacon’s argument shows the resulting theories to be trivial.
The parallel between Bacon’s argument and ours is easy to see. On one hand, Bacon’s
argument shows that classical theories cannot be closed under natural principles governing
a healthiness predicate true of all and only the sentences that satisfy the naïve truth rules,
keeping classical logic fixed (and similarly for unhealthiness). On the other hand, our results
38 Suppose
one tried to express her acceptance of all of PA’s theorems by asserting that all the theorems of PA
are true. If ‘true’ is modelled by a Σn -truth predicate, one would have thereby only expressed acceptance of
the Σn -theorems of PA.
39 For instance, classical theories do not derive the following instance of the T-Schema: Tr (pλq) ↔ λ.
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show that non-classical theories cannot be closed under natural principles governing a
unparadoxicality predicate, true of all and only the sentences that satisfy all the principles
of classical logic, keeping the naïve truth rules fixed (and similarly for paradoxicality).
7 Objections and replies
Revisionary theorists might object to the paradoxes of §§5.3-5.6 on the grounds that our
naïve principles for paradoxicality and unparadoxicality trade on a deep misunderstanding
of their views. More specifically, they might argue that our revenge arguments try to force
revisionary theories to express notions whose intelligibility they have long argued against.40
For instance, Field writes:
there is no negation that obeys [both of ¬-I and ¬-E] without restriction: if there
were, it would be impossible to have a [naïve] truth predicate. (Field, 2008, p.
309)
He further suggests that there is no coherent notion satisfying both of →-I and →-E. Similarly,
it might be argued that while the non-classical theories of §3 cannot express paradoxicality
or unparadoxicality, this is not a problem, since there is no coherent notion to be expressed
beyond the ones already expressible in such theories. For instance, the non-contractive
theorist might insist that LC-Par-I validates some illicit, and ultimately unacceptable, uses
of contraction. Likewise, the non-transitive theorist might insist that ‘cuttable’ is to be
interpreted by means of a conditional: if one can assert the premises of a cut on ϕ, then one
may assert the conclusion of such a cut. She might then point out that to assume that one
can in general infer the consequent of this conditional from the premises is just to assume
the unrestricted validity of →-E, which non-transitive theorists reject (since it makes Cut
admissible).
This kind of reply is perfectly coherent, as far as it goes. But how far does it go? As we
observed in §5.5, LC-Par-I expresses the basic non-contractivist diagnosis of the paradoxes,
namely that contraction in general is at the root of those paradoxes. Whether S is trivialised by
one, two, or m uses of contraction, these are all manifestations of the same problem. Similarly,
if one’s logic doesn’t allow interpreting ‘cuttable’ in such a way that one can cut on a cuttable
sentence, then this is a serious expressive limitation of the logic. The English expression
‘cuttable’ still means cuttable, and any adequate solution to the paradoxes should respect
this basic fact about English. (Imagine the surprise of our logic student, Lois, if she were
to learn that, even if ϕ is cuttable and one can assert the premises of a cut on ϕ, one may
40 See
e.g. Priest (2006b, Ch. 5), Field (2008, §21.1), Beall (2007b, 2009, Ch. 3).
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still not be allowed to derive the conclusion of such a cut.) Similarly for the other cases:
rejecting the rules for Par and Un restores non-triviality only at the price of serious expressive
limitations.
We can think of two main possible reactions at this point. First, upon deriving ⊥ in
S from a classical recapturing principle, non-classical theorists might concede that ϕ is
paradoxical, and insist that it is just a limitation about S that it cannot non-trivially prove as
much—a limitation one must learn to live with. However, while classical theorists may be
sympathetic to this suggestion, it does not sit well with the project of giving the semantics
for a language L in L.
Second, one might offer instead a hierarchical treatment of the notions of paradoxicality
and unparadoxicality, much in the same way as, in order to semantically characterise
intuitively defective sentences such as λ, Field (2007, 2008, ch. 22-23) defines a hierarchy of
determinacy operators.41 For instance, the thought would be that although the sentence ρ
identical to Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq) figuring in the proof of Proposition 5.2 cannot be said to be
paradoxical in the sense expressed by Par, it can still non-trivially be said to be paradoxical
in a stronger sense expressed by a new predicate Par1 . And so on (and similarly for Un).
It might then be insisted that, as Field puts it in a related context, this ‘would not nearly
have the devastating impact on our reasoning a stratification of truth predicates would have’
(Field, 2014, p. 22).
Field’s strategy has been criticised in a number of places (see e.g. Priest, 2007; Rayo and
Welch, 2007; Welch, 2008, 2014). Here we limit ourselves to noticing, first, that paradoxicality
and unparadoxicality appear to be just as central as truth in the revisionary theorist’s cognitive life. That λ entails absurdity if reasoned with classically, and is therefore paradoxical
in our sense, is a minimal but key revisionary lesson of the Liar Paradox. Second, the arguments that are usually put forward against non-hierarchical accounts of truth equally apply
to paradoxicality and unparadoxicality. For instance, if ϕ’s paradoxicality-in-S can only be
asserted by means of a stronger paradoxicality predicate ‘paradoxicality1 -in-S’, it might be
argued following Kripke (1975, pp. 695-6) that there is no way to interpret a discourse in
which two speakers attribute paradoxicality-in-S to everything they say.
8 Concluding remarks
Non-classical approaches to paradox are attractive for two main reasons: they allow one to
retain extremely intuitive naïve semantic principles; and they often allow one to do so using
41 The
strategy can be generalised to other non-classical approaches (see Field, 2008, ch. 27).
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non-classical logics that can be both natural and strong.42 This is a tempting, if ultimately
radical, thought. Existing revisionary approaches cannot express one of the basic lessons of
the semantic paradoxes, namely that certain sentences trivialise one’s theory if reasoned with
classically, while others don’t—facts that are built into the classical recapturing properties
enjoyed by each of the representative theories discussed in the course of this paper. As a
result, revisionary theorists must resort to logics that are significantly weaker than the four
families of logic introduced in §4. This is especially problematic for revisionary theorists who
place special emphasis in their theories’ ability to recapture classical theories and restrict
classical logic exactly when it creates paradox-driven trouble. The original Liar Paradox,
and other run of the mill paradoxes, can be blocked by weakening classical logic. But, in
view of the paradoxes of paradoxicality and unparadoxicality, the Liar Paradox inevitably
reemerges in new theory-relative clothes to exact its revenge.
Appendix
We provide proofs of Propositions 5.2, 5.4, 5.6, and 5.8.
Proposition 5.2. K3TTP is trivial, and so is the closure under LEM-Par-I and LEM-Par-E of any
theory extending K3TT+ .
Proof. We make use of the following K3TT+ -valid form of →-I (given →’s materiality, this
is in effect a restricted form of ∨-I):
⊢ψ
⊢ϕ→ψ
→-I−
We now reason thus, in K3TTP. Let ρ be identical to Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq). We first prove
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq):
SRef
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ρ ∨ ¬ρ
SRef
SRef
ρ⊢ρ
¬ρ ⊢ ¬ρ
Tr-I
¬-Tr-I
ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq)
¬ρ ⊢ ¬Tr(pρq)
∨-I1
ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq)
¬ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq)
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq)
∨-I2
∨-E
Call this derivation D0 . In our next step, we prove ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ρ:
42 Leon Horsten (2009, 2012) argues for the naturalness of a certain non-classical theory of truth. Field
(2008); Zardini (2011); Ripley (2012); Cobreros et al. (2013) all emphasise the logical strength of their respective
approaches.
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SRef
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Tr(pρq)
Tr-E
Tr(pρq) ⊢ ρ
Def. of ρ
SRef
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Tr(pρq)
→-E
Tr(pρq), Tr(pρq) ⊢ Par(pρq)
SContr
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Par(pρq)
→-IW
Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq) ⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
D0
Def. of ρ
Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq) ⊢ ρ
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) ∨ ¬Tr(pρq)
Cut
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ρ
Call this derivation D1 . We use it to show that ρ is paradoxical:
D1
D1
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ρ
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ρ
Definition of ρ
Tr-I
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq)
→-E
ρ ∨ ¬ρ, ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Par(pρq)
SContr
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ρ ∨ ¬ρ
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ Par(pρq)
ρ ∨ ¬ρ, ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ⊥
SContr
ρ ∨ ¬ρ ⊢ ⊥
LEM-Par-I
⊢ Par(pρq)
SRef
LEM-Par-E
We now have a proof of Par(pρq)—call it D2 . This in turn yields absurdity, as the following
derivation shows:
D2
⊢ Par(pρq)
→-I−
⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
Definition of ρ
D2
⊢ρ
∨-I1
⊢ ρ ∨ ¬ρ
⊢ Par(pρq)
LEM-Par-E
⊢⊥
Proposition 5.4. LPTTU is trivial, and so is the closure under LNC-Un-I and LNC-Un-E of any
theory extending LPTT+ .
Proof. Let ς be a sentence identical to ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq). We reason in LPTTU. We begin
by proving ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ⊥:
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SRef
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ς ∧ ¬ς
∧-E1
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ς
Def. of ς
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq)
∧-E2
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ Un(pςq)
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ς ∧ ¬ς
ς ∧ ¬ς, ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ⊥
SContr
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ⊥
SRef
LNC-Un-E
Call this derivation D0 . We can use it to prove ¬ς:
SRef
ς⊢ς
Def. of ς
ς ⊢ ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq)
∧-E1
ς ⊢ ¬Tr(pςq)
¬-Tr-E
SRef
ς ⊢ ¬ς
ς⊢ς
¬-EW
ς, ς ⊢ ⊥ ∨ (ς ∧ ¬ς)
D0
SContr
SRef
ς ⊢ ⊥ ∨ (ς ∧ ¬ς)
⊥⊢⊥
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ⊥
∨-E
ς⊢⊥
¬-I
⊢ ¬ς
Call the above derivation D1 . Together with D0 , it yields a proof of triviality.
D0
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ⊥
⊢ Un(pςq)
LNC-Un-I
D1
D0
ς ∧ ¬ς ⊢ ⊥
⊢ ¬ς
¬Tr-I
LNC-Un-I
⊢ ¬Tr(pςq)
⊢ Un(pςq)
∧-I
⊢ ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq)
D1
Def. of ς
⊢ ¬ς
⊢ς
⊢ ς ∧ ¬ς
LNC-Un-E
⊢⊥
∧-I
Proposition 5.6. MALLTTP is trivial, and so is the closure under LC-Par-I and LC-Par-E of any
theory extending MALLTT+ .
Proof. Let ρ be the sentence Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq). We reason in MALLTTP. We first prove ρ,
on the assumption that ρ satisfies ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ):
SRef
ρ⊢ρ
Def. of ρ
SRef
SRef
ρ⊢ρ
ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Tr(pρq)
Tr-I
→-E
ρ ⊢ Tr(pρq)
ρ, Tr(pρq) ⊢ Par(pρq)
Cut
SRef
ρ, ρ ⊢ Par(pρq)
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Tr(pρq)
SContrW
Tr-E
ρ, ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ Par(pρq)
Tr(pρq) ⊢ ρ
Cut
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ), Tr(pρq) ⊢ Par(pρq)
→-I
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
Def. of ρ
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ ρ
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Call this derivation D0 . We use it to prove that ρ is paradoxical from two occurrences of
ρ → ( ρ ∧ ρ ):
D0
D0
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ ρ
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ ρ
Def. of ρ
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ Tr(pρq)
2
[ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ)] ⊢ Par(pρq)
Tr-I
→-E
Call the above derivation D1 . We now use it to prove that ρ is paradoxical:
D1
[ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ)]2 ⊢ Par(pρq)
ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ) ⊢ ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ)
[ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ)]5 ⊢ ⊥
LC-Par-I
⊢ Par(pρq)
SRef
LC-Par-E
Call the above derivation D2 . It yields a proof of ⊥, and hence of the triviality of MALLTTP:
D2
D2
⊢ Par(pρq)
⊢ Par(pρq)
SWeak
SWeak
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Par(pρq)
Tr(pρq) ⊢ Par(pρq)
→-I
→-I
⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
⊢ Tr(pρq) → Par(pρq)
Def. of ρ
Def. of ρ
⊢ρ
⊢ρ
∧-I
⊢ ρ∧ρ
SWeak
ρ ⊢ ρ∧ρ
D2
→-I
⊢ ρ → (ρ ∧ ρ)
⊢ Par(pρq)
LC-Par-E
⊢⊥
Proposition 5.8. STTTU0 is trivial, and so is the closure under Cut-Un-I and Cut-Un-E of any
theory extending STTT0+ .
Proof. We reason much in the same way as in the paraconsistent case. We reason in STTTU0 .
We let ς be identical to ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq) and prove ς ⊢ ⊥:
SRef
ς⊢ς
Def. of ς
ς ⊢ ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq)
∧-E1
ς ⊢ ¬Tr(pςq)
¬-Tr-E
SRef
ς⊢ς
ς ⊢ ¬ς
¬-EWC
ς, ς, ς ⊢ ⊥
SContr
ς, ς ⊢ ⊥
SContr
ς⊢⊥
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Call this derivation D0 . We can now assume ⊢ ς, use the conclusion of D0 (namely ς ⊢ ⊥) to
derive ⊢ ⊥, and finally discharge our assumptions and categorically conclude ⊢ Un(pςq)
via Cut-Un-I:
1
⊢ς
⊢ ¬ Tr (pςq) ∧ Un(pςq)
⊢ Un(pςq)
Def. of ς
∧-E2
⊢⊥
⊢ Un(pςq)
⊢ς
1
D0
ς⊢⊥
Cut-Un-E
Cut-Un-I, 1
Call this derivation D1 . D0 and D1 can finally be combined to yield a proof of ⊥:
D0
ς⊢⊥
¬-I
D1
⊢ ¬ς
¬-Tr-I
⊢ ¬Tr(pςq)
⊢ Un(pςq)
∧-I
D1
⊢ ¬Tr(pςq) ∧ Un(pςq)
D0
Def. of ς
ς⊢⊥
⊢ Un(pςq)
⊢ς
Cut-Un-E
⊢⊥
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