Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications

by Koji Tanaka

Book Overview

A logic is called 'paraconsistent' if it rejects the rule called 'ex contradictione quodlibet', according to which any conclusion follows from inconsistent premises. While logicians have proposed many technically developed paraconsistent logical systems and contemporary philosophers like Graham Priest have advanced the view that some contradictions can be true, and advocated a paraconsistent logic to deal with them, until recent times these systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401782091
• ISBN13: 9789401782098
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"