Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics

Zach Weber (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 October 2021
Pages
260
ISBN
9781108834414

Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics

Zach Weber (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Logical paradoxes - like the Liar, Russell’s, and the Sorites - are notorious. But in Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics, it is argued that they are only the noisiest of many. Contradictions arise in the everyday, from the smallest points to the widest boundaries. In this book, Zach Weber uses dialetheic paraconsistency - a formal framework where some contradictions can be true without absurdity - as the basis for developing this idea rigorously, from mathematical foundations up. In doing so, Weber directly addresses a longstanding open question: how much standard mathematics can paraconsistency capture? The guiding focus is on a more basic question, of why there are paradoxes. Details underscore a simple philosophical claim: that paradoxes are found in the ordinary, and that is what makes them so extraordinary.

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