Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue

Synthese. 2021. Vol. 199. P. 493–525.

Zardini E.

The idea of a “substructural approach to a paradox” is, naturally enough, the idea of an approach to a paradox that uses a substructural logic. While, contrary to what some might perhaps expect given also the formal sophistication of many such approaches, as it turns out no component of this complex idea lends itself to a very formal definition, it will be useful first to go through some informal elucidations of the idea’s two main components: paradoxicality (Sect. 2) and substructurality (Sect. 3). Against that background, I’ll then proceed to expound the philosophical significance of substructural approaches to paradox (Sect. 4), which will in turn serve as a springboard to introducing the papers of this volume (Sect. 5).

Keywords: логика, logic

Publication based on the results of: Formal Philosophy and Logic of Rational Agency (2022)