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On Beall’s New Interpretation of $$WK_{3}$$WK3

I argue that a recent philosophical interpretation by Jc Beall of the middle value of Weak Kleene (three-valued) logic (known also as Bochvar’s logic) as ‘being off-topic’ is untenable. My main claim is that “being off-topic” is a relation, not a property, and as such cannot serve as an interpretation of a truth-value.

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