We wander through logic and justice, theorems and trials, reporting several cases of often imaginary legal proceedings and court cases in which logic is either a useful tool, a paradoxical presence, or an embarrassing absence. We call as witnesses Dostoyevsky, Carroll, Cervantes, Diderot, Chesterton, Kafka and many others. We also call a hasty trial against logic itself and its supposed benefits for research in mathematics, which ends in an equally hasty acquittal.
Logic on trial
Carlo Toffalori
2017-01-01
Abstract
We wander through logic and justice, theorems and trials, reporting several cases of often imaginary legal proceedings and court cases in which logic is either a useful tool, a paradoxical presence, or an embarrassing absence. We call as witnesses Dostoyevsky, Carroll, Cervantes, Diderot, Chesterton, Kafka and many others. We also call a hasty trial against logic itself and its supposed benefits for research in mathematics, which ends in an equally hasty acquittal.File in questo prodotto:
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