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If something is contradictory, then it is not consistent; but if something is non-contradictory, is it necessarily consistent? If so, there may be nothing between consistency and inconsistency. Thus if we literally apprehend the title of this book, it will be on nothing. However, the title of this book should be understood more broadly. This is because it is not so obvious how we should deal with notions like contradictions, consistency, inconsistency, and triviality. It must not be the case that something is there and is not there at the same time - here is the principle of contradiction in the formulation of Aristotle which, on the one hand, forms the basis of all critical thinking, and on the other hand, it is the object of controversy among the philosophers from Heraclitus through Hegel, to the present day.
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At this point, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to the organization of this conference, which was supported by FAPESP and CNPq, and part of the celebrations for the 50 years of Unicamp. We would also like to thank those who contributed to the event and to the development of this volume: the colleagues who served at the Scientific Committee in the persons of Newton da Costa (Brazil), Ítala D’Ottaviano (Brazil), Hannes Leitgeb (Germany), Daniele Mundici (Italy), Heinrich Wansing (Germany), Ryszard Wójcicki (Poland) and Marcelo Coniglio (Brazil), besides ourselves. We also thank the colleagues who served at the Local Committee: Juliana Bueno-Soler (Brazil), Fabio Bertato (Brazil), Rodolfo Ertola (Brazil), Gabriele Pulcini (Brazil), Giorgio Venturi (Brazil), Rafael Testa (Brazil), as well as the staff of CLE and to Jola Monikowska-Zygierewicz who took care about computer layout of the volume.
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Carnielli, W., Malinowski, J. (2018). Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency. In: Carnielli, W., Malinowski, J. (eds) Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency. Trends in Logic, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98797-2_1
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