Theoretical analysis reveals conflicts in the understanding of partial truth and propositional parthood, highlighting logical constraints.
The idea that partial truth is just truth of a part cannot be defended unless a theory of propositional parthood is put forward. Since it is known that truth-conditional implication cannot play that role, subject-matters have been used to fuel a two-component theory of propositional parthood. Can this yield a satisfactory theory of partial truth? We show that such an ambition conflicts with natural logical constraints for partial truth.
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Thomas Randriamahazaka (2025) studied this question.
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