This is Greg Restall’s website, with news, writings, pictures, and links. For background see below.

Routes to Triviality

(with Susan Rogerson) “Routes to Triviality,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 33 (2004) 421–436.

It is well known that contraction-related principles trivialise naïve class theory. It is less well known that many other principles unrelated to contraction also render the theory trivial. This paper provides a characterisation of a large class of formulas which do the job. This class includes all properly implication formulas known in the literature, and adds countably many more.

Details

Author: Su Rogerson and Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2004

Local file: routes.pdf (173KB)

Subjects: contraction models non-classical logic

About

I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

Start at the home page—a summary of the site. The left column is news, archived on the news archive page. The central column is for photos, archived on the occasional photos page. The right column contains recent items from the writing page, which lists my publications. These are also categorised by topic. You can follow my links at my account on delicious and occasional short snarky remarks at @consequently on twitter.

Current CO2 concentration in the atmosphere

To subscribe to this site, either read the full feed  of everything, the feed of news items only , or the feed of writing items only , which is also great for podcasting pdfs automatically.

This site is handcoded: I write text in Textmate, and Webby files things in the right place and uploads them to the server. This page was last modified on 2009-01-04 at 12:05AM.

Thought

The pawn and the king end up in the same box when the game is over.
— an Italian proverb.