Supervaluationism
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Supervaluationism
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In philosophical logic, supervaluationism is a semantics for dealing with irreferential singular terms and vagueness. It allows one to apply the tautologies of propositional logic in cases where truth values are undefined. According to supervaluationism, a proposition can have a definite truth value even when its components do not. The proposition "Pegasus likes licorice", for example, is often interpreted as having no truth-value given the assumption that the name "Pegasus" fails to refer. If i
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Semantics for dealing with irreferential singular terms and vagueness
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervaluationism
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2022-10-03T21:22:56Z
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