On Discourses Addressed by Infidel Logicians

Abstract

We attempt to address here some alleged criticisms against the philosophical import of the so-called Brazilian approach to paraconsistency, especially by providing some demanded epistemic elucidations to the whole enterprise of the logics of formal inconsistency. In the way of elucidating, we substantiate the view that difficulties in reasoning under contradictions in both the Buddhist and the Aristotelian tradition can be accomodated within the precepts of the Brazilian school of paraconsistency.

A Modality Called ‘Negation’:

“…Thanks to an anonymous referee for pressing me on this point.12 This thought is not uncontroversial even among logicians belonging to the same broad family: paraconsistent relevant logicians make a lot of it, but other paraconsistentists in the Brazilian tradition disagree (seeCarnielli and Coniglio 2013).…”