Title Paradox and paraconsistency : conflict resolution in the abstract sciences / John Woods.

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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 362 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index.
Contents	Conflict in the abstract sciences -- Modalities -- Managing inconsistency -- Semantic intuitions -- Sets and truths -- Fiction -- Currying liars -- Normativity.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	One might expect the exact sciences of logic and mathematics to be without conflict. In fact these disciplines are rife with internal divisions between often incompatible systems. This book explores apparently intractable disagreements in logic and the foundations of mathematics and sets out conflict resolution strategies that evade these stalemates.
Subject	Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
	Pluralism.
	MATHEMATICS -- Infinity.
	MATHEMATICS -- Logic.
	Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. (OCoLC)fst01002068
	Pluralism. (OCoLC)fst01067392
	Paradoxen.
	Consistentie (logica)
	Mathematische Logik.
Other Form:	Print version: Woods, John (John Hayden). Paradox and paraconsistency. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521810949 0521009340 (DLC) 2002067744 (OCoLC)49799337
ISBN	0511064357 (electronic bk.)
	9780511064357 (electronic bk.)
	9780511614002 (electronic bk.)
	0511614004 (electronic bk.)
	9780511072819 (electronic bk.)
	0511072813 (electronic bk.)

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