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by Mathnerd314 3331 days ago
Well, if relevance logic is part of linear logic, and it's a true subsumption relationship, then you're saying Belnap doesn't think relevance logic is relevant anymore. So in other words he's pretty much rejected logic altogether.

I guess it makes sense, his most recent papers are about indeterminism (http://www.pitt.edu/~belnap/futurecontingents.pdf), which logic doesn't handle well, but I'm not quite sure how you'd represent the branching-universe model he uses in a type system. I guess you'd need the history operator he uses, m/h = moment m on history h.

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I was referring to the subsumption under substructural logic, not a subsumption under linear logic. Belnap seemed to view linear logic as rather different from his own interests in relevance logic.