This post is True and False

Just came across two great logical/philosophical concepts: paraconsistent logic and dialetheism. Both reject, to differing degrees, the Law of Non-Contradiction. I guess F. Scott Fitzgerald was a paraconsistent dialetheist:

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
The Crack-Up (1936)

Once again, I came across these concepts serendipitously: a Google  alert for a paper asserting that interactive computation is paraconsistent.

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