User talk:Glaukon

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Hello, Glaukon, I'm Kafziel. I noticed you were new, or at least that nobody has officially welcomed you yet, so let me be the first to say hello, give you some tips, and share a few useful links.

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[edit] Paraconsistent Logic

Hello. Yes I am (er perhaps have been) professionally interested in Paraconsistent Logics. My Dissertation is a huge tome entitled "Ineffability and Self-Refutation: Non-Monotonic Logic in the Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius, Sextus Empiricus, and the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita." Since working on it, I have fallen quite behind on the developments in Paraconsistent Logic. I wrote an article on it in early 05, which was lost (and one of the several copies of it was destroyed by the Hurricane Katrina!), but by the time I re-wrote it, it was obsolete, and Bremer had already said the only interesting thing in it, sigh. Further I mostly worked via book and article rather than web-availible stuff even when I was working so I can't point you too much there either. Raymundo Morado, did a brilliant bibliography of Paraconsistent Logics, but I don't think it was ever published and is probably out of date now anyway. I've been trying to look at some of Bremer's stuff to catch back up. Frankly, it looks like there is far more stuff in Europe and Australia than here. On Rescher, hmm http://logica.rug.ac.be/adlog/ref.html mentions it, I just don't think his stuff is on-line yet. Oh, the Rescher thing is mostly on Pierce not C. I. Lewis, I now see. I could send you excerpts from my diss on PL, but it won't tell you anything you don't already know, unless it's news to you that Batens-style adaptive logics wind up being non-monotonic as well as paraconsistent, and the NMLs represent a whole style of PLs that Priest and Routley didn't think of back when they were summarizing the situation (and in other parts, that these PL/NMLs have pre-cursors in the logical thought of Sextus, Pseudo-Dionysius, the Asta, and perhaps elsewhere in the apophatic mysticism traditions). Also I guess I could send you my paper on how self-contradictions behave strangely in NMLs. But I'm not certain how else I can help you. Bmorton3 20:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)