Rewriting the History of Connexive Logic

Abstract The “official” history of connexive logic was written in 2012 by Storrs McCall who argued that founded ancient logicians like Aristotle, Chrysippus, and Boethius; it further developed medieval Abelard, Kilwardby, Paul Venice; rediscovered the 19th twentieth century Lewis Carroll, Hugh MacColl, Frank P. Ramsey, Everett J. Nelson. From 1960 onwards, finally transformed into non-classical calculi which partly concur with systems relevance paraconsistent logic. In this paper will be McCall’s historical analysis is fundamentally mistaken since doesn’t take account two versions connexivism. While “humble” connexivism maintains properties (like condition no proposition implies its own negation) only apply to “normal” (e.g., self-consistent) antecedents, “hardcore” insists they also hold for “abnormal” propositions. It shown overwhelming majority forerunners were connexivists. Their ideas concerning (“humbly”) implication don’t give rise, however, anything a