Meanings
- human sciencesThe study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.
[…] obtained by adding the standard modal operators □ (necessity) and ◇ (possibility) to paralogics.
2009, Logique et analyse, page 1931 more example
The great majority of mathematicians and philosophers regard the principle of contradiction as the over-arching principle of logic, and are therefore inclined to regard paralogics (in the improbable case they have heard of them) not just as deviations from orthodoxy but as aberrations.
2012, M. Bunge, Epistemology & Methodology III, page 58
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