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Modal & non-classical logic
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Reading Nāgārjuna as a dialetheist imports a problem he did not have
I keep running into Graham Priest's reading of Nāgārjuna, partly in his own books and partly in the paper he wrote with Jay Garfield on Nāgārjuna and the limits of thought. On that reading, some of Nāgārjuna's claims are true contradictions: the…
Started by Meera Kulkarni5 replies -
The sea battle argument is a scope mistake, and Aristotle half saw it
Chapter 9 of De Interpretatione makes a fatalist of somebody in my class every year. So here is the case I make to them, and I would like it attacked by people who know more logic than my students. The argument: if…
Started by Giulia Ferrante4 replies -
Fuzzy logic is good engineering and a poor theory of vagueness
I've shipped fuzzy controllers. They work, they're cheap, and nobody who has used a decent one doubts that. My thesis is narrower: as an account of what vague words mean, fuzzy logic doesn't solve the problem it's usually advertised as solving. Two…
Started by Derek Hollis4 replies