Argument

Principle of explosion

Overview

theorem which states that any statement can be proven from a contradiction

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Principle of explosion

• Nuel Belnap
• Duns Scotus

Related ideas

• Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
• Negation
• Intuitionistic logic
• Synthese
• Law of noncontradiction
• Ernst Zermelo
• Model theory
• Reductio ad absurdum
• False (logic)
• Minimal logic
• Set theory
• Truth
• Theory
• Theorem
• Graham Priest
• Formal system
• Well-formed formula
• Paraconsistent logic
• C. I. Lewis
• Russell's paradox
• Logic
• Gottlob Frege
• Abraham Fraenkel
• Classical logic

Place in the tradition

Part of Classical logic.

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