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Need anything follow from a contradiction?
- Source :
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Inquiry . Apr2022, Vol. 65 Issue 3, p278-297. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Classical and intuitionistic logic both validate Ex Contradictione Quodlibet (ECQ), according to which any proposition whatsoever follows from a contradiction. Many philosophers have found ECQ counter-intuitive, but criticisms of the principle have almost universally been directed from a position of support for relevance or other orthodox paraconsistent logics, according to which some, but not necessarily all, propositions follow from a contradiction. This paper draws attention to the historically significant view that nothing whatsoever follows from a contradiction – Ex Contradictione Nihil (ECN). It addresses the key arguments – model-theoretic, proof-theoretic, meaning theoretic and holist – deployed by proponents of ECQ against their standard opponents, and shows that each can be defeated from a position of support for ECN. In the course of answering these arguments, some understanding is developed of possible motivations for ECN and a solid case is built that ECN deserves further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CONTRADICTION
*PHILOSOPHERS
*INCONSISTENCY (Logic)
*LOGIC
*ARGUMENT
*CRITICISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0020174X
- Volume :
- 65
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155816247
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1762728