Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics

Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9781108999021
ISBN-13 : 1108999026
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Book Synopsis Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics by : Zach Weber

Download or read book Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics written by Zach Weber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical paradoxes – like the Liar, Russell's, and the Sorites – are notorious. But in Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics, it is argued that they are only the noisiest of many. Contradictions arise in the everyday, from the smallest points to the widest boundaries. In this book, Zach Weber uses “dialetheic paraconsistency” – a formal framework where some contradictions can be true without absurdity – as the basis for developing this idea rigorously, from mathematical foundations up. In doing so, Weber directly addresses a longstanding open question: how much standard mathematics can paraconsistency capture? The guiding focus is on a more basic question, of why there are paradoxes. Details underscore a simple philosophical claim: that paradoxes are found in the ordinary, and that is what makes them so extraordinary.


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