Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Relevant Logic and its Semantics: 1. What is relevant logic and why do we need it?; 2. Possible worlds and beyond; 3. Situating implication; 4. Ontological interlude; 5. Negation; 6. Modality, entailment and quantification; Part II. Conditionals: 7. Indicative conditionals; 8. Counterfactuals; Part III. Inference and its Applications: 9. The structure of deduction; 10. Disjunctive syllogism; 11. Putting relevant logic to work; 12. Afterword; Appendix A: the logic R; Appendix B: Routley-Meyer semantics for R; Glossary; References; Index.

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This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides it with a philosophical interpretation.

About the Author

Edwin D. Mares is Senior Lecturer at the Philosophy Programme, Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on both the philosophical and mathematical aspects of logic, as well as metaphysics and the philosophy of language.