LD Double Logic and Gamma-LD Existential Graphs

Abstract

In this paper, the deductive system for double propositional logic DL and gamma DL existential graphs are presented. It rigorously proves the consistency of the DL and that the DL theorems correspond exactly to the valid existential graphs of gamma DL. When the language of DL is restricted to the language of classical propositional logic, the restriction associated with gamma DL coincides with the valid existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce's alpha system. It turns out that intuitionistic propositional logic theorems are DL theorems; furthermore, when the language of DL is restricted to the language of IL, the restriction associated with gamma DL coincides with the valid existential graphs of Arnold Oostra's intuitionistic alpha system. As a consequence, it is inferred that gamma LD has as particular cases, the alpha existential graphs of LC and LI. Finally, in DL, the Aristotelian definitions of truth and falsity are derived, with which the ability of DL to solve a version of the liar paradox, where LC and LI fail, is illustrated.