How to build your own paraconsistent logic: an introduction to the Logics of Formal (In)Consistency

The logics of formal inconsistency (LFIs) are logics that allow to explicitly formalize the concepts of consistency and inconsistency by means of formulas of their language. Contradictoriness, on the other hand, can always be expressed in any logic, provided its la nguage includes a symbol for negation. Besides being able to represent the distinction between contradiction and inconsistency, LFIs are non-explosive logics, in the sense that a contradiction does not entail arbitrary statements, but yet are gently explosive, in the sense that, adjoining the additional requirement of consistency, then contradictoriness does cause explosion. Several logics can be seen as LFIs, among them the great majority of paraconsistent logics developed under the Brazilian tradition, as well as the sytems developed under the Polish tradition. We present here their semantical interpretations by way of possible-translations semantics, stressing their significance and applications to human reasoning and machine reasoning. We also give tableaux systems for some important LFIs: bC, Ci and LFI1.