Thinking about Contradictions The Imaginary Logic of Nikolai Aleksan
This volume examines the entire logical and philosophical production of Nicolai A. Vasil’ev, studying his life and activities as a historian and man of letters. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of this influential Russian logician, philosop
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Venanzio Raspa
Thinking about Contradictions The Imaginary Logic of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Vasil’ev
Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Volume 386
Editor-in-Chief Otávio Bueno, University of Miami, Department of Philosophy, USA Editors Berit Brogaard, University of Miami, USA Anjan Chakravartty, University of Notre Dame, USA Steven French, University of Leeds, UK Catarina Dutilh Novaes, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Venanzio Raspa
Thinking about Contradictions The Imaginary Logic of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Vasil’ev
Venanzio Raspa Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo Urbino, Italy Translated by Peter N. Dale
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To Italo Cubeddu, with whom I began to study philosophy and the issue of contradiction To Silvio Bozzi, who taught me to love the study of logic and its history
Preface
This book is the result of a long, though not continuous, process. I first began to study Vasil’ev’s work for my PhD thesis (In-contraddizione. Il principio di contraddizione alle origini della nuova logica [In-contradiction. The Principle of Contradiction at the Origins of the New Logic]). I defended this dissertation in October 1996 and it was published in 1999. There I discussed, among other matters regarding the principle of contradi
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