The contagiosity of meaninglessness - formalised for propositional logic
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In an earlier essay I mentioned that that meaninglessness is contagious with respect to sentences. One can pretty easily formulate the principle in normal english - if a sentence is meaningless, then so is any more complex sentence of which it is a part of. To get a proper, formal formulation of this we may simply think of the rules in logic systems used to form well-formed formulas (=wff's) and then formulate some similar principles for the meaninglessness of sentences. Here's what I have in mind:
The contagiosity of meaninglessness - formalised for propositional logic
The contagiosity of meaninglessness …
The contagiosity of meaninglessness - formalised for propositional logic
In an earlier essay I mentioned that that meaninglessness is contagious with respect to sentences. One can pretty easily formulate the principle in normal english - if a sentence is meaningless, then so is any more complex sentence of which it is a part of. To get a proper, formal formulation of this we may simply think of the rules in logic systems used to form well-formed formulas (=wff's) and then formulate some similar principles for the meaninglessness of sentences. Here's what I have in mind: