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Alexander V. Gheorghiu, Research Fellow in Logic or Applied Logic, UCL

Researchers have invented a new system of logic that could boost critical thinking and AI

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The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic boxes of the last century. Simultaneously, the rise of AI presses upon us the need to understand how words relate to meaning and reasoning.

A global group of philosophers, mathematicians and computer scientists have come up with a new understanding of logic that addresses these concerns, dubbed “inferentialism”.

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