A Brief Prehistory of Philosophical Paraconsistency

• Autores: William H.F. Altman
• Localización: Principia: an international journal of epistemology, ISSN-e 1808-1711, Vol. 14, Nº. 1 (Abril), 2010, págs. 1-14
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In celebration of Newton da Costa�s place in the history of paraconsistency, this paper considers the use and abuse of deliberate self-contradiction. Beginning with Parmenides, developed by Plato, and continued by Cicero, an ancient philosophical tradition used deliberately paraconsistent discourses to reveal the truth. In modern times, decisionism has used deliberate self-contradiction against Judeo-Christian revelation