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“How to be Really Contraction Free” Studia Logica 52 (1993) 381–391.

I show that any finitely valued logic of a simple kind fails to support naïve comprehension, if it has a conditional. I then go on to show how some infinitely valued logics also fail to be robustly contraction free. Then I make a bold conjecture that robust contraction freedom is sufficient to support naïve set theory. This conjecture was later proved to be wrong by two graduate students from Monash, Sam Buchart and Su Rogerson, in some delightful work in 1997, which has since also been published in Studia Logica.

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