Grounding conditionals
Abstract This paper develops a systematic account of the immediate grounds of conditionals, uses this to give a ground-theoretic semantics for the language of intuitionistic propositional logic, and proves intuitionistic logic sound and complete with respect to this semantics. A striking consequence of the account is that all intuitionistic validities are zero-grounded and thus—unlike distinctively classical validities—make no demand on reality.
Authors
- Jon Erling Litland
Institutions
- University of Oslo (NO)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Philosophical Studies
- Published
- 2026-02-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02458-x
- Primary Topic
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- Universitetet i Oslo