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Note carefully that the title of this piece is not ‘A Survey of Relevance Logic’. Such a project would be impossible given the development of the field and even the space limitations of this Handbook. For example Anderson and Belnap’s [1975] book Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity, volume 1 runs over 500 pages, and is their summary of just ‘half’ of the work done by them and their co-workers up to about the early 70s.1
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Dunn, J.M. (1986). Relevance Logic and Entailment. In: Gabbay, D., Guenthner, F. (eds) Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library, vol 166. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5203-4_3
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