America the Contradictory

Contradictory purposes in prisons.

On Being Contradictory

This paper discusses recognizing and producing contradictions. After illustrating the phenomena of contradiction, the paper presents conceptual classes of contradiction and gives an overview of the how they can be recognized. The next part discusses the construction of contradictions, in particular with respect to contradicting historic events. The object of this paper is to examine the computa...

Contradictory Behavior During Genocides

In all large-scale genocides, rescuing occurs alongside killing. Some members of the aggressors’ ethnic group even risk their own lives to save members of the targeted group. Killing and rescuing occur closely together, and even the same persons may engage in both behaviors—killing on one occasion and rescuing on another. This article examines such cases—where the same individuals kill and resc...

America`s Strategies against IR during the Last Forty Years

The Islamic Revolution, as the greatest historical evolution of contemporary times, has caused America`s interests face many challenges. Understanding the tools and strategies used by the United States against the Islamic Republic of Iran helps us to better understand and confront the country. In this regard, using the theory of invasive realism, American strategies against the Islamic Republic...

Paraconsistent logic and contradictory viewpoints

We start by recalling the definition of contradiction from the perspective of the square of opposition, emphasizing that it comes together with two other notions of oppositions, contrariety and subcontrariety. We then introduce the notion of paraconsistent negation as a non-explosive negation; we explain the connection with subcontrariety and why it is better not to talk of contradiction in cas...