The Law of Non-Contradiction (hereafter: LNC) says that no contradiction can be true. But what is a contradiction? And what does it take for a contradiction to be true? As Patrick Grim [5] has pointed out, a quick look at the literature will reveal a large menagerie of different interpretations of the basic terms and, consequently, of LNC. Grim actually identifies as many as 240 different optio...

The paper focuses on the study of the contradiction between two Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets. First, taking into account some characterizations obtained in previous papers, some functions are defined in order to measure the degrees of contradiction. Besides the principal properties of these measures are pointed out. Finally, some results relating self-contradiction and contradiction be...

Fishery science is usually perceived by its practitioners as being a critical and quantitative activity, deeply dependent on mathematical analysis; indeed, the introduction to a well-known text on fisheries science suggests that only those who are comfortable writing computer programs or playing with numbers should become involved in fisheries management. This blunt statement demonstrates what ...

The paper deals with Aristotelian logic as the special case of more general epistemology and sociology of both science and common sense. The Aristotelian principles of identity, of noncontradiction, and of excluded middle are to be supplemented by the secondorder cybernetic, or "cybernethic" principles of paradox, of ambivalence, and of control. In this paper we collect some ideas on how to eva...

Prior Analytics by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384– 322 BCE) and Laws of Thought by the English mathematicianGeorge Boole (1815 – 1864) are the twomost important surviving original logical works from before the advent of modern logic. This article has a single goal: to compare Aristotle’s system with the system that Boole constructed over twenty-two centuries later intending to extend and ...

background: hospitals have responsibility for responding to legitimate demands for release of health information while protecting the confidentiality of the patient health records. there have always been challenges concerning medical records confidentiality and their disclosure and release type in medical record departments. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of disclosure o...