Inconsistency in Science (Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity): 2

by Joke Meheus (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2002

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  Central to this change were the advent of paraconsistent logics, the shift in attention from finished theories to construction processes, and the recognition that most scientific theories were at some point either internally inconsistent or incompatible with other accepted findings. Is it ever rational to accept an inconsistent theory?