A Paraconsistent Poem

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Poem: A Lewis Thomas View of Medicine

Dr Grace Dammann had devoted decades of her life to the compassionate care of AIDS patients in San Francisco, California, when, on May 21, 2008, a head-on vehicle collision on the Golden Gate Bridge nearly took her life. When she not only survived but came out of a coma with all of her mental faculties intact, Grace, her family, and her doctors agreed it was nothing short of a miracle. Her path...

Paraconsistent Assertions

Classical logic predicts that everything (thus nothing useful at all) follows from inconsistency. A paraconsistent logic is a logic where inconsistency does not lead to such an explosion. We argue that paraconsistent logics are especially advantageous in order to deal with assertions made by intelligent agents. Other propositional attitudes like knowledge and beliefs can in principle be treated...

A Survey of Paraconsistent Logics

A survey of paraconsistent logics that are prominent representatives of the different approaches that have been followed to develop paraconsistent logics is provided. The paraconsistent logics that will be discussed are an enrichment of Priest’s logic LP, the logic RM3 from the school of relevance logic, da Costa’s logics Cn, Jaśkowski’s logic D2, and Subrahmanian’s logics Pτ . A deontic logic ...