Universal Logic (Volume 109) (Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Brady, Ross

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ISBN 10: 1575862565 ISBN 13: 9781575862569

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2006

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Throughout the twentieth century, the classical logic of Frege and Russell dominated the field of formal logic. But, as Ross Brady argues, a new type of weak relevant logic may prove to be better equipped to present new solutions to persistent paradoxes. Universal Logic begins with an overview of classical and relevant logic and discusses the limitations of both in analyzing certain paradoxes. It is the first text to demonstrate how the main set-theoretic and semantic paradoxes can be solved in a systematic way and as such will be of great interest to both scholars and students of logic.

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Universal Logic conceptualizes a new logic, where the main inference connective is understood as 'meaning containment'. Based on this logic, simple consistency is proved for naive class theory, also in conjunction with 'classical theories' such as a Z-F-style set theory. This book shows how the main set-theoretic and semantic paradoxes can be solved in a systematic way, which is conceptualized independently of the paradoxes themselves.