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The Logic of Opinion
The Logic of Opinion

Author(s): Ionel Narița
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: opinion; complex logic; acceptance degrees

Summary/Abstract: Unlike truth values that, accordingly to the principles of logic, are only two, there can be distinguished three values of opinion for a proposition: acceptance, rejection and indifference. Still, the attempt to build a three-valued logic of opinion comes to the paradox that there are tautologies that are not accepted. We can avoid the paradox if we use a complex representation of the opinion values, through analogy with complex numbers. The logic of opinion is a kind of complex logic.

  • Issue Year: 7/2013
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 41-51
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English