A Refined Geometry of Logic

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 13 (3):339-356 (2009)
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Abstract

In order to measure the degree of dissimilarity between elements of a Boolean algebra, the author’s proposed to use pseudometrics satisfying generalizations of the usual axioms for identity. The proposal is extended, as far as is feasible, from Boolean algebras to Brouwerian algebras. The relation between Boolean and Brouwerian geometries of logic turns out to resemble in a curious way the relation between Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries of physical space. The paper ends with a brief consideration of the problem of the metrization of the algebra of theories.

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David Miller
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On Distance from the Truth as a True Distance'.David Miller - 1977 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 6 (1):15-23.
Lattice Theory.Garrett Birkhoff - 1940 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 5 (4):155-157.
Metric Postulates for Modular, Distributive, and Boolean Lattices.D. W. Miller - 1979 - Bulletin of the Section of Logic 8 (4):191-195.

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