Deductive closure
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Deductive closure is a property of a set of objects (usually the objects in question are statements). A set of objects, O, is said to exhibit closure or to be closed under a given operation, R, provided that for every object, x, if x is a member of O and x is R-related to any object, y, then y is a member of O.[1] In the context of statements, a deductive closure is the set of all the statements that can be deduced from a given set of statements.
In propositional logic, the set of all true propositions exhibits deductive closure: if set O is the set of true propositions, and operation R is logical consequence (“”), then provided that proposition p is a member of O and p is R-related to q (i.e., p
q), q is also a member of O.
Epistemic closure
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In epistemology, many philosophers have and continue to debate whether particular subsets of propositions—especially ones ascribing knowledge or justification of a belief to a subject—are closed under deduction.
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- ↑ Peter D. Klein, Closure, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (second edition)