The Comparative Law Yearbook Of International Business Cumulative Index Volumes 1-22 1977-2000

For centuries, inconsistencies were seen as a hindrance to good reasoning, and their role in the sciences was ignored. However, logicians as well as philosophers and historians have shown a growing interest in the matter. This text highlights the questions and issues involved. For centuries, inconsistencies were seen as a hindrance to good reasoning, and their role in the sciences was ignored.

However, logicians as well as philosophers and historians have shown 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 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? This collection of papers examines such questions. It contains case studies as well as philosophical analyses, and presents an excellent overview of the different approaches in the domain.