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Logical consequence (also entailment) is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic. It is the relationship between statements that holds true when one logically "follows from" one or more others. Valid logical arguments are ones in which the conclusions follow from its premises, and its conclusions are consequences of its premises. The philosophical analysis of logical consequence involves asking, 'in what sense does a conclusion follow from its premises?' and 'what does it mean for a conclusion to be a consequence of premises?'[1] All of philosophical logic can be thought of as providing accounts of the nature of logical consequence, as well as logical truth.[2]
Logical consequence is taken to be both necessary and formal with examples explicated using models and proofs.[1] A sentence is said to be a logical consequence of a set of sentences, for a given language, if and only if, using logic alone (i.e. without regard to any interpretations of the sentences) the sentence must be true if every sentence in the set were to be true.[3]
Logicians make precise accounts of logical consequence with respect to a given language by constructing a deductive system for , or by formalizing the intended semantics for . Alfred Tarski highlighted three salient features for which any adequate characterization of logical consequence needs to account: 1) that the logical consequence relation relies on the logical form of the sentences involved, 2) that the relation is a priori, i.e. it can be determined whether or not it holds without regard to sense experience, and 3) that the relation has a modal component.[3]
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The most widely prevailing view on how to best account for logical consequence is to appeal to formality. This is to say that whether or not statements follow from one another logically depends on the structure or logical form of the statements without regard to the contents of that form.
Syntactic accounts of logical consequence rely on schemes using inference rules. For instance, we can express the logical form of a valid argument as "All are . All are . Therefore, All are ." This argument is formally valid, because every instance of arguments constructed using this scheme are valid.
This is in contrast to an argument like "Fred is Mike's brother's son. Therefore Fred is Mike's nephew." As this argument depends on the meanings of the words "Fred," "Mike," "brother," "son," and "nephew." The statement "Fred is Mike's nephew." is a material consequence of "Fred is Mike's brother's son," not a formal consequence. However, this is still an incomplete account of formal consequence, as the argument is still an instance of " is 's brother's son. Therefore, is 's nephew." Every instance of which is valid.[1]
If you know that follows logically from no information about the possible interpretations of or will affect that knowledge. Our knowledge that is a logical consequence of cannot be influenced by empirical knowledge.[1] Deductively valid arguments can be known to be so without recourse to experience, so they must be knowable a priori.[1] However, formality alone does not guarantee that logical consequence is not influenced by empirical knowledge. So the apriority of logical consequence is considered to be independent of formality.[1]
The two prevailing techniques for providing accounts of logical consequence involve expressing the concept in terms of proofs and the other via models. The study of the syntactic consequence (of a logic) is called (its) proof theory whereas the study of (its) semantic consequence is called (its) model theory.[4]
A formula is a syntactic consequence[5][6][7][8] within some formal system of a set of formulas if there is a formal proof in of from the set .
Syntactic consequence does not depend on any interpretation of the formal system.[9]
A formula is a semantic consequence within some formal system of a set of statements
if and only if there is no model in which all members of are true and is false.[10] Or, in other words, the set of the interpretations that make all members of true is a subset of the set of the interpretations that make true.
Modal accounts of logical consequence are variations on the following basic idea:
Alternatively (and, most would say, equivalently):
Such accounts are called "modal" because they appeal to the modal notions of logical necessity and logical possibility. 'It is necessary that' is often expressed as a universal quantifier over possible worlds, so that the accounts above translate as:
Consider the modal account in terms of the argument given as an example above:
The conclusion is a logical consequence of the premises because we can't imagine a possible world where (a) all frogs are green; (b) Kermit is a frog; and (c) Kermit is not green.
Modal-formal accounts of logical consequence combine the modal and formal accounts above, yielding variations on the following basic idea:
The accounts considered above are all "truth-preservational," in that they all assume that the characteristic feature of a good inference is that it never allows one to move from true premises to an untrue conclusion. As an alternative, some have proposed "warrant-preservational" accounts, according to which the characteristic feature of a good inference is that it never allows one to move from justifiably assertible premises to a conclusion that is not justifiably assertible. This is (roughly) the account favored by intuitionists such as Michael Dummett.
The accounts discussed above all yield monotonic consequence relations, i.e. ones such that if is a consequence of , then is a consequence of any superset of . It is also possible to specify non-monotonic consequence relations to capture the idea that, e.g., 'Tweety can fly' is a logical consequence of
but not of
For more on this, see belief revision#Non-monotonic inference relation.
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