Inconsistent Geometry

by Chris Mortensen

The Theory of Inconsistency has a long lineage, stretching back to Herakleitos, Hegel and Marx. In the late twentieth-century, it was placed on a rigorous footing with the discovery of paraconsistent logic and inconsistent mathematics. Paraconsistent logics, many of which are now known, are "inconsistency tolerant", that is, they lack the rule of Boolean logic that a contradiction implies every proposition. When this constricting rule was seen to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848900228
• ISBN13: 9781848900226
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: College Publications
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"