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ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOGIC IN BRAZIL I: THE EARLY LOGIC STUDIES AND THE PATH TO CONTEMPORARY LOGIC

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de História da Matemática, 2020
This article presents the first part of a historical overview of the development of logic in Brazil, and describes the development of contemporary logic in the county with an emphasis on its socio-institutional and interdisciplinary aspects.
Itala M. Loffredo D’Ottaviano   +1 more
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Sound Probabilistic Reasoning under Contradiction, Inconsistency and Incompleteness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
I intend to show how probability theory can be regarded as logic-dependent, viewing probability as a branch of logic in a generalized way. A kind of meta-axiomatics permits us to define probability measures that are either classical, paraconsistent ...
Carnielli, Walter
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The ubiquity of conservative translations

open access: yes, 2012
We study the notion of conservative translation between logics introduced by Feitosa and D'Ottaviano. We show that classical propositional logic (CPC) is universal in the sense that every finitary consequence relation over a countable set of formulas can
da Silva   +8 more
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Negation and Dichotomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The present contribution might be regarded as a kind of defense of the common sense in logic. It is demonstrated that if the classical negation is interpreted as the minimal negation with n = 2 truth values, then deviant logics can be conceived as ...
Schang, Fabien
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What Do Paraconsistent, Undecidable, Random, Computable and Incomplete mean? A Review of Godel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world by Gregory Chaitin, Francisco A Doria, Newton C.A. da Costa 160p (2012) (review revised 2019) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In ‘Godel’s Way’ three eminent scientists discuss issues such as undecidability, incompleteness, randomness, computability and paraconsistency. I approach these issues from the Wittgensteinian viewpoint that there are two basic issues which have ...
Starks, Michael
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The role of consistency in empirical science

open access: yesManuscrito, 2011
Any inconsistent theory whose underlying logic is classical encompasses all the sentences of its own language. As it denies everything it asserts, it is useless for explaining or predicting anything.
Jesús Mosterín
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A Geometric Interpretation of the Neutrosophic Set - A Generalization of the Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper we generalize the intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), paraconsistent set, and intuitionistic set to the neutrosophic set (NS). Several examples are presented.
Smarandache, Florentin
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Logic and Ontology

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2002
In view of the present state of development of non classical logic, especially of paraconsistent logic, a new stand regarding the relations between logic and ontology is defended In a parody of a dictum of Quine, my stand May be summarized as follows. To
Newton C. A. da Costa
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BOOK REVIEW: CARNIELLI, Walter & MALINOWSKI, Jacek (eds.). Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency (Trends in Logic 47, Springer International Publishing, 2018, VI+322 pages)

open access: yesManuscrito, 2019
In this review I briefly analyse the main elements of each chapter of the book centred in the general areas of logic, epistemology, philosophy and history of science.
RAFAEL R. TESTA
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Belief Revision in Science: Informational Economy and Paraconsistency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the present paper, our objective is to examine the application of belief revision models to scientific rationality. We begin by considering the standard model AGM, and along the way a number of problems surface that make it seem inadequate for this ...
Coimbra, Daniel
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