Paraconsistency and dialetheism

Abstract

Publisher This chapter discusses paraconsistent logic, in which contradictions do not entail everything. However, the roots of paraconsistency lie deep in the history of logic, its modern developments date to just before the middle of the 20th century. Since then, the paraconsistent logic have been proposed and constructed for many and for different reasons. The most philosophically challenging of these reasons is dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are true. The chapter discusses the history of paraconsistency and the history of dialetheism. The chapter also discusses the modern developments of paraconsistency and dialetheism, those since about 1950. Some important issues that be..