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If-Logic and Truth-definition

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In this paper we show that first-order languages extended with partially ordered connectives and partially ordered quantifiers define, under a certain interpretation, their own truth-predicate. The interpretation in question is in terms of games of imperfect information. This result is compared with those of Kripke and Feferman.

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Sandu, G. If-Logic and Truth-definition. Journal of Philosophical Logic 27, 143–164 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017905122049

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