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On formal aspects of the epistemic approach to paraconsistency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper reviews the central points and presents some recent developments of the epistemic approach to paraconsistency in terms of the preservation of evidence.
Carnielli, Walter   +2 more
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Inconsistency, paraconsistency and ω-inconsistency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this paper I'll explore the relation between ω-inconsistency and plain inconsistency, in the context of theories that intend to capture semantic concepts. In particular, I'll focus on two very well known inconsistent but non-trivial theories of truth:
Da Re, Bruno
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The Fictional Guide to Impossible Truths

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology
In this paper, our main goal is to present a new account for contradictions and impossible truths. It is loosely based on both Austin’s account of truth and the Logic of Impossible Truths (LIT), a formal semantics designed to address incomplete ...
Guilherme Araújo Cardoso   +1 more
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Overinterpreting Logics

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Paraconsistent logics, minimally, are not explosive; that is, on these logics, not everything follows from a contradiction of the form ‘A and not-A’.
Otávio Bueno
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Swyneshed, Paradox and the Rule of Contradictory Pairs [PDF]

open access: yes
Roger Swyneshed, in his treatise on insolubles (logical paradoxes), dating from the early 1330s, drew three notorious corollaries of his solution. The third states that there is a contradictory pair of propositions both of which are false.
Read, Stephen
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On falsifying empirical contradictions [PDF]

open access: yes
The possibility of testing contradictory statements about the factual world has been suggested but barely discussed in the relevant literature. Here I argue that if we assume that there are contradictory observation sentences, it would be logically ...
Bartolo Alegre, Luis Felipe
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What is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Apophaticism -- the view that God is both indescribable and inconceivable -- is one of the great medieval traditions of philosophical thought about God, but it is largely overlooked by analytic philosophers of religion.
Gabriel, Citron, Michael, Scott
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Three epistemic paralogisms, one logic of utterances [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Assuming that a paralogism is an unintentionally invalid reasoning, we give an ...
Schang, Fabien
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Religious Pluralism and the Buridan's Ass Paradox [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The paradox of ’Buridan’s ass’ involves an animal facing two equally adequate and attractive alternatives, such as would happen were a hungry ass to confront two bales of hay that are equal in all respects relevant to the ass’s hunger. Of course, the ass
Kvanvig, Jonathan L.
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