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We here attempt to address certain criticisms of the philosophical import of the so-called Brazilian approach to paraconsistency by providing some epistemic elucidations of the whole enterprise of the logics of formal inconsistency. In the course of this discussion, we substantiate the view that difficulties in reasoning under contradictions in both the Buddhist and the Aristotelian traditions can be accommodated within the precepts of the Brazilian school of paraconsistency.
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It is believed that the “infidel mathematician” in question was either Edmond Halley or Isaac Newton himself.
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There is some historical evidence that the elements of the infinitesimal calculus, developed between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries in Kerala, India, may have been transmitted to Europe by Jesuit missionaries (cf. Almeida and Joseph 2007).
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For some strange reason, this seems to be more acute among writers in certain groups. Although the phenomenon of “relative own-language preference” in citations is well-known, in this case it seems to be one of “relative own-group preference”. As an attitude, it is reminiscent of a whimsical statement by the Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, who famously said of a book by a rival: “I didn’t read it, and I didn’t like it”.
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“da Costa’ systems are, consequently, not treated here from this point on”.
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“da Costa’s negation is absolutely non-recursive!”.
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Carnielli, W., Coniglio, M.E. (2013). On Discourses Addressed by Infidel Logicians. In: Tanaka, K., Berto, F., Mares, E., Paoli, F. (eds) Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4438-7_3
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