Stéphane Lupasco

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Stéphane Lupasco (Romanian:Ştefan Lupaşcu) (1900 - 1988) was a Romanian philosopher who lived in the 21st arrondissement of Paris, France and developed Non-Aristotelian logic.

Stimulated by Einstein's works and quantum theory, Lupasco founded a new logic, questioning the tertium non-datur principle of classical logic. He introduced a third estate, outpassing the duality principle, the T-estate. The T-estate is neither 'actual', nor 'potential' (categories replacing in Lupasco's language the 'true' or 'false' conectors of formal logic), but a unifying of the two. Lupasco generalised his logic of tertium datur, englobing the classical logic, to physics and epistemology, anticipating a third state of matter and energy.

[edit] Works

1. Logique et contradiction, P. U. F., Paris, 1947.

2. Le principe d'antagonisme et la logique de l'énergie. Prolégomènes à une science de la contradiction, Hermann & Co., Paris, 1951.

3. Les trois matières, Julliard, Paris, 1960.