<p>Assembling the previously scattered works of the Preservationist School, this collection contains all of the most significant works on the basic theory of the preservationist approach to paraconsistent logic.</p>
On preserving: essays on preservationism and paraconsistent logic
β Scribed by Brown, Bryson; Schotch, Peter K.; Jennings, Raymond Earl (eds.)
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 206
- Series
- Toronto studies in philosophy
- Edition
- draft
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Assembling the previously scattered works of the Preservationist School, this collection contains all of the most significant works on the basic theory of the preservationist approach to paraconsistent logic.
Abstract:
β¦ Table of Contents
Content: 1. Introduction to the Essays / Peter Schotch --
2. Paraconsistency: Who Needs It? / Ray Jennings and Peter Schotch --
3. Weakly Additive Algebras and a Completeness Problem / Alasdair Urquhart --
4. Dualization of Neighbourhood Structures / Dorian Nicholson --
5. Polyadic Modal Logics and Their Monadic Fragments / Kam Sing Leung and R.E. Jennings --
6. Preserving What? / Gillman Payette and Peter Schotch --
7. Preserving Logical Structure / Gillman Payette --
8. Representation of Forcing / Dorian Nicholson and Bryson Brown --
9. Forcing and Practical Inference / Peter Schotch --
10. Ambiguity Games and Preserving Ambiguity Measures / Bryson Brown.
β¦ Subjects
Inconsistency (Logic);Logic.;PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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