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Year: 2018

Pages: 5485-5496

Series: Synthese

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Gabriele Pulcini, Achille C. Varzi, "Paraconsistency in classical logic", Synthese 195 (12), 2018, pp. 5485-5496.

Abstract

Classical propositional logic can be characterized, indirectly, by means of a complementary formal system whose theorems are exactly those formulas that are not classical tautologies, i.e., contradictions and truth-functional contingencies. Since a formula is contingent if and only if its negation is also contingent, the system in question is paraconsistent. Hence classical propositional logic itself admits of a paraconsistent characterization, albeit "in the negative". More generally, any decidable logic with a syntactically incomplete proof theory allows for a paraconsistent characterization of its set of theorems. This, we note, has important bearing on the very nature of paraconsistency as standardly characterized.

Publication details

Year: 2018

Pages: 5485-5496

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

Gabriele Pulcini, Achille C. Varzi, "Paraconsistency in classical logic", Synthese 195 (12), 2018, pp. 5485-5496.