
Strong Depth Relevance
Author(s) -
Shay Allen Logan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australasian journal of logic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1448-5052
DOI - 10.26686/ajl.v18i6.7081
Subject(s) - property (philosophy) , relevance (law) , constructive , variable (mathematics) , variety (cybernetics) , infimum and supremum , mathematics , class (philosophy) , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , epistemology , mathematical economics , pure mathematics , computer science , discrete mathematics , philosophy , psychology , political science , social psychology , programming language , mathematical analysis , law , process (computing) , statistics
Relevant logics infamously have the property that they only validate a conditional when some propositional variable is shared between its antecedent and consequent. This property has been strengthened in a variety of ways over the last half-century. Two of the more famous of these strengthenings are the strong variable sharing property and the depth relevance property. In this paper I demonstrate that an appropriate class of relevant logics has a property that might naturally be characterized as the supremum of these two properties. I also show how to use this fact to demonstrate that these logics seem to be constructive in previously unknown ways.