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Jean-Yves Béziau
Overview
Jean-Yves Beziau (French: [bezjo]; born January 15, 1965, in Orléans, France) is a Swiss Professor in logic at the University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, and Researcher of the Brazilian Research Council. He is permanent member and former president of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. Before going to Brazil, he was Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and researcher at Stanford University working with Patrick Suppes. Beziau created the World Logic Day, January 14, 2019. He then visited UNESCO in Paris and the day was recognized at unanimity the same year by the general assembly of this organization (194 countries).
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To say that the notion is subjective and subjective only, is so far quite correct: for the notion certainly is subjectivity itself. Not less subjective than the notion are also the judgment and syllogism: and these forms, together with the so-called Laws of Thought (the Laws of Identity, Difference, and Sufficient Ground), make up the contents of what is called the 'Elements' in the common logic. But we may go a…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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It is regarded by the modern objective idealist as the adequate substitute for ancient ontological metaphysics; but others treat it as that branch of rhetoric which teaches proficiency in argumentation. For a time a superficial compromise equilibrium was maintained wherein the logic of formal demonstration which the Middle Ages extracted from Aristotle was supplemented by an inductive logic of discovery of truth…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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He invented four arguments, all immeasurably subtle and profound, to prove that motion is impossible, that Achilles can never overtake the tortoise, and that an arrow in flight is really at rest. After being refuted by Aristotle, and by every subsequent philosopher from that day to our own, these arguments were reinstated, and made the basis of a mathematical renaissance, by a German professor, who probably never…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
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- Philosophy
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Switzerland
- Stanford University
- Paraconsistent logic
- Logic
- Patrick Suppes
- France
- Principle of explosion
- Walter Carnielli
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Part of Paraconsistent logic.