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17Fraïssé’s theorem for logics of formal inconsistencyLogic Journal of the IGPL 28 (5): 1060-1072. 2020.We prove that the minimal Logic of Formal Inconsistency $\mathsf{QmbC}$ validates a weaker version of Fraïssé’s theorem. LFIs are paraconsistent logics that relativize the Principle of Explosion only to consistent formulas. Now, despite the recent interest in LFIs, their model-theoretic properties are still not fully understood. Our aim in this paper is to investigate the situation. Our interest in FT has to do with its fruitfulness; the preservation of FT indicates that a number of other classi…Read more
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32Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency (edited book)Springer. 2018.This volume investigates what is beyond the Principle of Non-Contradiction. It features 14 papers on the foundations of reasoning, including logical systems and philosophical considerations. Coverage brings together a cluster of issues centered upon the variety of meanings of consistency, contradiction, and related notions. Most of the papers, but not all, are developed around the subtle distinctions between consistency and non-contradiction, as well as among contradiction, inconsistency, and tr…Read more
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343On formal aspects of the epistemic approach to paraconsistencyIn Marco Ruffino, Max Freund & Max Fernández de Castro (eds.), Logic and philosophy of logic. Recent trends from Latin America and Spain, College Publications. pp. 48-74. 2018.This paper reviews the central points and presents some recent developments of the epistemic approach to paraconsistency in terms of the preservation of evidence. Two formal systems are surveyed, the basic logic of evidence (BLE) and the logic of evidence and truth (LET J ), designed to deal, respectively, with evidence and with evidence and truth. While BLE is equivalent to Nelson’s logic N4, it has been conceived for a different purpose. Adequate valuation semantics that provide decidability a…Read more
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Contradictions, from Consistency to InconsistencyIn Walter Carnielli & Jacek Malinowski (eds.), Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency, Springer. 2018.
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Making The ‘Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever’ a Bit HarderIn Brian Rayman & Melvin Fitting (eds.), Raymond Smullyan on Self Reference, Springer Verlag. 2017.
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Experimenting with ConsistencyIn Dmitry Zaitsev & Vladimir Markin (eds.), The Logical Legacy of Nikolai Vasiliev and Modern Logic, Springer Verlag. pp. 199-221. 2017.This paper discusses logical accounts of the notions of consistency and negation, and in particular explores some potential means of defining consistency and negation when expressed in modal terms. Although this can be done with interesting consequences when starting from classical normal modal logics, some intriguing cases arise when starting from paraconsistent modalities and negations, as in the hierarchy of the so-called cathodic modal paraconsistent systems (cf. Bueno-Soler, Log Univers 4(1…Read more
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19Finite and infinite-valued logics: inference, algebra and geometry: PrefaceJournal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 9 (1): 7-8. 1999.This is the preface for a special volume published by the Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics Volume 9, Issue 1, 1999.
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The Wonder of Colors and the Principle of AriadneIn Marcos Silva (ed.), How Colours Matter to Philosophy, Springer. 2017.
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Paraconsistency: The Logical Way to the InconsistentBulletin of Symbolic Logic 9 (3): 410-412. 2003.
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22Computability. Computable Functions, Logic, and the Foundations of MathematicsBulletin of Symbolic Logic 8 (1): 101-104. 2002.
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4The Many Sides of Logic. (edited book)College Publications. 2009.The ``Many Sides of Logic'' is a volume containing a selection of the papers delivered at three simultaneous events held between 11-17 May 2008 in Paraty, RJ, Brazil, continuing a tradition of three decades of Brazilian and Latin-American meetings and celebrating the 30th anniversary of an institution congenital with the mature interest for logic, epistemology and history of sciences in Brazil: CLE 30 - 30th Anniversary of the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science at the Stat…Read more
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1An algorithm for axiomatizing and theorem proving in finite many - valued propositional logicsLogique Et Analyse 28 (12): 363. 1985.
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11Paraconsistent AlgebrasStudia Logica 43 (1): 79-88. 1984.The propositional calculi $C_{n}$ , $1\leq n\leq \omega $ introduced by N.C.A. da Costa consitute special kinds of paraconsistent logics. A question which remained open for some time concerned whether it was possible to obtain a Lindenbaum's algebra for $C_{n}$ . C. Mortensen settled the problem, proving that no equivalence relation for $C_{n}$ determines a non-trivial quotient algebra. The concept of da Costa algebra, which reflects most of the logical properties of $C_{n}$ , as well as the con…Read more
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22Some results on polarized partion relations of higher dimensionMathematical Logic Quarterly 39 (1): 461-474. 1993.Several types of polarized partition relations are considered. In particular we deal with partitions defined on cartesian products of more than two factors. MSC: 03E05
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32Possible-translations algebraization for paraconsistent logicsBulletin of the Section of Logic 34 (2): 77-92. 2005.
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52Paraconsistent algebrasStudia Logica 43 (1-2). 1984.The prepositional calculiC n , 1 n introduced by N.C.A. da Costa constitute special kinds of paraconsistent logics. A question which remained open for some time concerned whether it was possible to obtain a Lindenbaum''s algebra forC n . C. Mortensen settled the problem, proving that no equivalence relation forC n . determines a non-trivial quotient algebra.The concept of da Costa algebra, which reflects most of the logical properties ofC n , as well as the concept of paraconsistent closure syst…Read more
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523Recovery operators, paraconsistency and dualityLogic Journal of the IGPL 28 (5): 624-656. 2020.There are two foundational, but not fully developed, ideas in paraconsistency, namely, the duality between paraconsistent and intuitionistic paradigms, and the introduction of logical operators that express meta-logical notions in the object language. The aim of this paper is to show how these two ideas can be adequately accomplished by the Logics of Formal Inconsistency (LFIs) and by the Logics of Formal Undeterminedness (LFUs). LFIs recover the validity of the principle of explosion in a parac…Read more
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707The Wonder of Colors and the Principle of AriadneIn Walter Carnielli & Carlos di Prisco (eds.), The Wonder of Colors and the Principle of Ariadne, Springer. pp. 309-317. 2017.The Principle of Ariadne, formulated in 1988 ago by Walter Carnielli and Carlos Di Prisco and later published in 1993, is an infinitary principle that is independent of the Axiom of Choice in ZF, although it can be consistently added to the remaining ZF axioms. The present paper surveys, and motivates, the foundational importance of the Principle of Ariadne and proposes the Ariadne Game, showing that the Principle of Ariadne, corresponds precisely to a winning strategy for the Ariadne Ga…Read more
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228Seventh Latin American on Mathematical Logic- Meeting of the association for symbolic logic: Campinas, Brazil, 1985Journal of Symbolic Logic 51 (4): 1093-1103. 1986.This publication refers to the proceedings of the Seventh Latin American on Mathematical Logic held in Campinas, SP, Brazil, from July 29 to August 2, 1985. The event, dedicated to the memory of Ayda I. Arruda, was sponsored as an official Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic. Walter Carnielli. The Journal of Symbolic Logic Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 1093-1103
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70Book review r A. (2004). "Book review: Yves nievergelt, foundations of ...
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55Maximal weakly-intuitionistic logicsStudia Logica 55 (1). 1995.This article introduces the three-valuedweakly-intuitionistic logicI 1 as a counterpart of theparaconsistent calculusP 1 studied in [11].I 1 is shown to be complete with respect to certainthree-valued matrices. We also show that in the sense that any proper extension ofI 1 collapses to classical logic.The second part shows thatI 1 is algebraizable in the sense of Block and Pigozzi (cf. [2]) in a way very similar to the algebraization ofP 1 given in [8].
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206th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (Wollic'99)Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 5 (3): 424-425. 1999.
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39The problem of Quantificational Completeness and the Characterization of All Perfect Quantifiers in 3-Valued LogicsZeitschrift fur mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 33 (1): 19-29. 1987.This paper investigates a problem related to quantifiers which has some analogies to that of propositional completeness I give a definition of quantifier in many-valued logics generalizing the cases which already occur in first order many- valued logics. Though other definitions are possible, this particular one, which I call distribution quantifiers, generalizes the classical quantifiers in a very natural way, and occurs in finite numbers in every m-valued logic. We …Read more
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33Polynomizing: Logic inference in polynomial format and the legacy of BooleIn L. Magnani & P. Li (eds.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Springer. pp. 349--364. 2007.Polynomizing is a term that intends to describe the uses of polynomial-like representations as a reasoning strategy and as a tool for scientific heuristics. I show how proof-theory and semantics for classical and several non-classical logics can be approached from this perspective, and discuss the assessment of this prospect, in particular to recover certain ideas of George Boole in unifying logic, algebra and the differential calculus.
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5Logic, sets and information: proceedings of the tenth Brazilian Conference on Mathematical Logic (edited book)Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência, UNICAMP. 1995.Proceedings of the Tenth Brazilian Conference on Mathematical Logic. Coleção CLE, volume 14, 1995. Centro De Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência, Unicamp, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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70Advances in Contemporary Logic and Computer Science: Proceedings of the Eleventh Brazilian Conference on Mathematical Logic, May 6-10, 1996, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (review)American Mathematical Soc.. 1999.This volume presents the proceedings from the Eleventh Brazilian Logic Conference on Mathematical Logic held by the Brazilian Logic Society in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The conference and the volume are dedicated to the memory of professor Mario Tourasse Teixeira, an educator and researcher who contributed to the formation of several generations of Brazilian logicians. Contributions were made from leading Brazilian logicians and their Latin-American and European colleagues. All papers were select…Read more
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86The dialogical approach to paraconsistencySynthese 125 (1-2): 201-232. 2000.Being a pragmatic and not a referential approach tosemantics, the dialogical formulation ofparaconsistency allows the following semantic idea tobe expressed within a semi-formal system: In anargumentation it sometimes makes sense to distinguishbetween the contradiction of one of the argumentationpartners with himself (internal contradiction) and thecontradiction between the partners (externalcontradiction). The idea is that externalcontradiction may involve different semantic contextsin which, s…Read more
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University of CampinasCentre For Logic, Epistemology And The History Of ScienceDistinguished Professor
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Areas of Specialization
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Mathematics |
Areas of Interest
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Mathematics |