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<p>as well as extensions to <a href="page.php?w=modal_logic">modal logic</a> and several <a href="page.php?w=substructural_logic">substructural logics</a>.</p>

<p><big> Philosophical motivation </big></p>
<p>The conception of meaning at the heart of proof-theoretic semantics is most easily made vivid by an everyday example. Asked what Tammy is a vixen means, one does not ordinarily produce a set of objects together with the assignment of an extension to the predicate; one says, rather, that to call Tammy a vixen is to commit oneself to her being female</p><p>
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