Syllogisms in Rudimentary Linear Logic, Diagrammatically

  • Authors:
  • Ruggero Pagnan

  • Affiliations:
  • DISI, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a reading of the traditional syllogistics in a fragment of the propositional intuitionistic multiplicative linear logic and prove that with respect to a diagrammatic logical calculus that we introduced in a previous paper, a syllogism is provable in such a fragment if and only if it is diagrammatically provable. We extend this result to syllogistics with complemented terms à la De Morgan, with respect to a suitable extension of the diagrammatic reasoning system for the traditional case and a corresponding reading of such De Morgan style syllogistics in the previously referred to fragment of linear logic.