Stuart_Armstrong comments on Consequentialist Formal Systems - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 May 2012 08:38PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 May 2012 04:21:54PM 1 point [-]

One immediate idea is to replace the conditional [(Prf(S) -> U=u) and U<=u] -> S with the rule of inference "from [(Prf(S) -> U=u) and U<=u], deduce S". That way you can't get a contrapositive, and you probably need to get Loebian to hope to find a contradiction.

Not confident at all that would work, though.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 May 2012 04:40:17PM 0 points [-]

Yes, that was the intention, and the problem is that the implication can be tugged from the wrong side, but implication can't be one-sided. I'd prefer to stay with standard inference rules though, if at all possible.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 May 2012 08:05:32AM 0 points [-]

Pulling on one side but not the other seems textbook of what relevance logics were designed for.