paralogics

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paralogics

  1. (logic) The study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.
    • 2009, Logique et analyse, page 193:
      [] obtained by adding the standard modal operators □ (necessity) and ◇ (possibility) to paralogics.
    • 2012, M. Bunge, Epistemology & Methodology III, page 58:
      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.