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The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics

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Three-valued logics are standardly used to formalize gappy languages, i.e., interpreted languages in which sentences can be true, false or neither. A three-valued logic that assigns the same truth value to all gappy sentences is, in our view, insufficient to capture important semantic differences between them. In this paper we will argue that there are are two different kinds of pathologies that should be treated separately and we defend the usefulness of a four-valued logic to represent adequately these two types of gappy sentences. Our purpose is to begin the formal exploration of the four-valued logics that could be used to represent the phenomena in question and to show that these phenomena are present in natural language, at least according to some semantic theories of natural language.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2021-0011

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Semàntica (Filosofia), Lògica

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Semantics (Philosophy), Logic

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MARTÍNEZ FERNÁNDEZ, José and MARTÍ, Genoveva. The representation of gappy sentences in four-valued semantics. Semiotica. 2021. Vol. 2021, num. 240, pags. 145-163. ISSN 0037-1998. [consulted: 14 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/197865

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