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Paradox and Paraconsistency : Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences.
Title:
Paradox and Paraconsistency : Conflict Resolution in the Abstract Sciences.
Author:
Woods, John.
ISBN:
9781139147774
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (382 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 Conflict in the Abstract Sciences -- CONFLICT RESOLUTION -- A Medical Analogy -- Philosophy's Most Difficult Problem -- Cost-Benefit Considerations -- BEGGING THE QUESTION -- ASYMPTOMATIC ARGUMENTS -- DIALOGUE LOGIC -- 2 Modalities -- QUANTIFIED MODAL LOGIC -- THE DIALECTICS OF AMBUSHES -- PARACONSISTENT OBJECTIONS -- DOGMATISM -- DOGMATISM AND PHILOSOPHY'S MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM -- INTUITIONS -- 3 Managing Inconsistency -- RECONCILIATION -- INCONSISTENCY -- DIALETHIC BELIEF-MANAGEMENT? -- INFERENCE AND IMPLICATION -- WEAK PARACONSISTENCY -- 4 Semantic Intuitions -- INTUITIVE CONCEPTS -- SEMANTIC INTUITIONS -- DIALECTICAL ECOLOGIES -- IDEALISM -- 5 Sets and Truth -- THE DIALETHIC MINI-HISTORY OF SET THEORY -- DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM LOST? -- THE CURRENT STATE OF DIALETHIC SET THEORY -- INTUITIVE SEMANTICS -- TYPICAL AMBIGUITY -- KGH THEORIES -- THE CURRENT STATE OF DIALETHIC SEMANTICS -- GAPS AND GLUTS -- ONE TRUTH VALUE ONLY? -- RATIONAL CRITICIZABILITY -- DIALETHISM AND REDUCTIO ARGUMENTS -- 6 Fiction -- A PRIMORDIAL INTUITION -- FICTIONAL DISCOURSE -- INCONSISTENT FICTION -- TRIVIALITY -- GAPPER REDUX -- INCOMMENSURABILITY -- STIPULATIONISM -- PLURALISM AGAIN -- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 6 -- The Mischief of Ricardo Bosque by Djaitch da Bloo -- 7 Currying Liars -- ANALYTIC INTUITIONS -- TARSKI'S SOLUTION -- OPACITY -- DISQUOTATION -- A THIRD PROOF -- INDEXICALITY -- DIAGONALIZATION -- 8 Normativity -- IDEAL MODELS -- MATHEMATIZING -- COLLAPSING A DISTINCTION -- LINGUISTIC INTUITIONS -- ANALYTIC INTUITIONS -- REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- TUTELAGE -- VALUE INTUITIONS -- Notes -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book sets out conflict resolution strategies to bridge disagreements between logic and mathematics.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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