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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of “conjunctive containment” as an appropriate analysis of the concept of the articulation of our beliefs, hypotheses, etc. We provide a prospective application for this concept by consideration of an amendment to Rescher’s 1964 theory of hypothetical reasoning (HR) (Rescher 64), only introducing the concept itself in section 4. The earlier motivational parts of this paper draw heavily on Belnap 79, which, however, ended in different conclusions, as we make clear at the end of section 3. Section 3 also indicates why we consider that relevance logic itself does not solve the problem.
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Belnap, N.D. (1989). Conjunctive Containment. In: Norman, J., Sylvan, R. (eds) Directions in Relevant Logic. Reason and Argument, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1005-8_9
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