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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781115303321

Autore

Schotch Peter

Titolo

On preserving : essays on preservationism and paraconsistent logic / / edited by Peter Schotch, Bryson Brown, and Raymond Jennings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9288-X

1-4426-8874-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Philosophy

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Inconsistency (Logic)

Logic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.