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  title info:
    title: Inconsistency in Science
  name:
    name part: Meheus, Joke.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages)
  abstract: For centuries, inconsistencies were seen as a hindrance to good reasoning, and their role in the sciences was ignored. In recent years, however, logicians as well as philosophers and historians have showed a growing interest in the matter. Central to this change were the advent of paraconsistent logics, the shift in attention from finished theories to construction processes, and the recognition that most scientific theories were at some point either internally inconsistent or incompatible with other accepted findings. The new interest gave rise to important questions. How is `logical anarchy' avoided? Is it ever rational to accept an inconsistent theory? In what sense, if any, can inconsistent theories be considered as true? The present collection of papers is the first to deal with this kind of questions. It contains case studies as well as philosophical analyses, and presents an excellent overview of the different approaches in the domain.
  note: edited by Joke Meheus.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Humanities
  classification: B67
  classification: 501
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Origins, Studies in the sources of scientific creativity ; 2
  identifier: 9789401700856 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401700850 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048160235
  identifier: 9048160235
  identifier: 9401700850
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130125
    record change date: 20260422171144.0
    record identifier: in00003574510
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng