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Class of non-classical logics
Deviant logic is a type of logic incompatible with classical logic. Philosopher Susan Haack uses the term deviant logic to describe certain non-classical
Deviant_logic
Application of logical methods to philosophical problems
extended logics and deviant logics. Logic itself can be defined as the study of valid inference. Classical logic is the dominant form of logic and articulates
Philosophical_logic
Formal systems of logic that significantly differ from standard logical systems
"Schrödinger logics") rejects or restricts the law of identity; In Deviant Logic (1974) Susan Haack divided non-classical logics into deviant, quasi-deviant, and
Non-classical_logic
Study of correct reasoning
known. Deviant logics, on the other hand, reject certain classical intuitions and provide alternative explanations of the basic laws of logic. The word
Logic
Study of the scope and nature of logic
first-order logic, extended logics, and deviant logics. Extended logics accept the basic formalism and the axioms of classical logic but extend them with new
Philosophy_of_logic
English philosopher and academic (1945–2026)
of Logics. Cambridge University Press, 1978. Evidence and Inquiry. Blackwell, 1993. Second edition, Prometheus Books 2009. Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond
Susan_Haack
Overview of and topical guide to logic
Classical logic Computability logic Deontic logic Dependence logic Description logic Deviant logic Doxastic logic Epistemic logic First-order logic Formal
Outline_of_logic
Class of formal logics
Intelligence and Logic Programming, volume 2, chapter 2.6. Oxford University Press. Haack, Susan, (1996). Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism
Classical_logic
Type of formal logic
construct logic tolerant to contradiction (1910). Philosophy portal Deviant logic Formal logic Fuzzy logic Probability logic Intuitionistic logic Table of
Paraconsistent_logic
Process of drawing correct inferences
Haack, Susan (1996). "1. 'Alternative' in 'Alternative Logic'". Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism. Chicago and London: University of
Logical_reasoning
Topics referred to by the same term
Spanish film Deviant logic, a class of non-classical logics "Deviant" (CSI: Miami episode) A member of the DeviantArt online community Deviants, a fictional
Deviant_(disambiguation)
British philosopher, born 1948
Philosophy TV, 10 January 2011: Discussion of Deviant (Non-Classical) Logic, teaching logic, metafiction and logic with Maureen Eckert (UMASS Dartmouth) Two-Part
Graham_Priest
Form of reasoning
system is classical logic and the rules of inference listed here are all valid in classical logic. But so-called deviant logics provide a different account
Deductive_reasoning
Varying application boundaries
Klir (eds.), Concepts and fuzzy logic. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011; Susan Haack, Deviant logic, fuzzy logic: beyond the formalism. Chicago: University
Fuzzy_concept
in that paper. In Philosophy of Logic (the chapter titled "Deviant Logics"), Quine rejects the idea that classical logic should be revised in response to
Is_Logic_Empirical?
to a new state. deviant logic A term used to describe non-standard or alternative logical systems that deviate from classical logic. diagonalization
Glossary_of_logic
Philosophical analogy about knowledge
Deviant Logic: Some Philosophical Issues. London; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 37. ISBN 052120500X. OCLC 1200917. Certainly some logic is
Neurath's_boat
Nonconceptual awareness and interconnectedness
F#*king Up to Waking Up. Simon and Schuster. Haack, Susan (1996). Deviant logic, fuzzy logic: beyond the formalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Hanegraaff
Nondualism
Principle in the philosophy of science
diverge in meaning, with quantum logic abandoning truth-functional semantics altogether. Quine argued that deviant logics tend to lack the simplicity and
Duhem–Quine_thesis
Canadian logician and philosopher (1937–2024)
Toronto: Peter Martin Associates (1974) The Logic of Fiction: A Philosophical Sounding of Deviant Logic. The Hague and Paris: Mouton and Co. A second
John_Woods_(logician)
Polish–American mathematician (1901–1983)
metamathematics, and algebraic logic, he also contributed to abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, type theory
Alfred_Tarski
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Though he was largely ignored during his lifetime, Giuseppe
Gottlob_Frege
School of thought
Lwowsko-Warszawska) was an interdisciplinary school (mainly philosophy, logic and psychology) founded by Kazimierz Twardowski in 1895 in Lwów, Austro-Hungary
Lwów–Warsaw_school
American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)
and original contributions to logic, especially modal logic. His principal contribution is a semantics for modal logic involving possible worlds, now
Saul_Kripke
Polish logician and philosopher (1878–1956)
Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He thought innovatively about
Jan_Łukasiewicz
Mathematical logician and philosopher
Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and David Hilbert were using logic and set theory to investigate the foundations of mathematics), building
Kurt_Gödel
American mathematician and computer scientist (1903–1995)
logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for
Alonzo_Church
Australian writer & journalist (born 1947)
Stephen Dedman", translated by Benoit Domis. "Alternative Reality and Deviant Logic in J. G. Ballard's Second 'Disaster' Trilogy," Science Fiction 1, No
Terry_Dowling
British philosopher (1925–2011)
mathematical logic, he developed an intermediate logic, a logical system intermediate between classical logic and intuitionistic logic that had already
Michael_Dummett
British philosopher, mathematician and economist (1903–1930)
logic. Alonzo Church would go on to show that the general case of the decision problem for first-order logic is unsolvable and that first-order logic
Frank_P._Ramsey
the paradox by way of n-valued logics, such as fuzzy logic, which have radically departed from classical two-valued logics. Analytic philosophy Discourse
Philosophy_of_language
British IT security researcher and expert (born 1994)
WannaCry ransomware attack. He is employed by cybersecurity firm Kryptos Logic. Hutchins is the elder son of Janet Hutchins, a Scottish nurse, and Desmond
Marcus_Hutchins
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
29 April 1951) was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language
Ludwig_Wittgenstein
American philosopher and logician (1908–2000)
1956 to 1978. Quine was a teacher of logic and set theory. He was famous for his position that first-order logic is the only kind worthy of the name,
Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
German-American philosopher (1891–1970)
semantics (Carnap 1942, 1943, 1956), modal logic, and on the philosophical foundations of probability and inductive logic (Carnap 1950, 1952). After a stint at
Rudolf_Carnap
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
with an emphasis on analysis, clear prose, rigorous arguments, formal logic, mathematics, and the natural sciences (with less emphasis on the humanities)
Analytic_philosophy
Text for clarification; one of four rhetorical modes
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Description
British philosopher (born 1955)
interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is the former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford
Timothy_Williamson
American philosopher (born 1941)
for his contributions to philosophy of science, epistemology and formal logic. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University
Bas_van_Fraassen
Canadian philosopher (1936–2023)
and in 2010 he gave the René Descartes Lectures at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS). Hacking also gave the Howison lectures
Ian_Hacking
Informal understanding of acceptable conduct
ought to do). The effects of norms can be determined by a logic of appropriateness and logic of consequences; the former entails that actors follow norms
Social_norm
English philosopher (1910–1989)
promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). Ayer was educated at Eton College
A._J._Ayer
American philosopher
book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the logic of scientific explanation. Nagel was born in Nové Mesto nad Váhom (now in
Ernest_Nagel
Finnish and American philosopher and logician (1929–2015)
Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. He was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for philosophy in
Jaakko_Hintikka
Distinction in the philosophy of language
philosophy is traceable to Frege's philosophy of language. Frege's views on logic (i.e., his idea that some parts of speech are complete by themselves, and
Sense_and_reference
American philosopher and logician
Philosophy. His philosophical work focuses on the philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of Frege and Russell. He is
David_Kaplan_(philosopher)
American philosopher (1941–2001)
philosophy of mind, philosophy of probability, epistemology, philosophical logic, aesthetics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of time, and philosophy
David_Lewis_(philosopher)
Denoting phrase in the form of "the X"
{\displaystyle \exists x(\forall y(\phi (y)\iff y=x)\land \psi (x))} Lambert's law (logic) Philosophy of language John Searle Vacuous truth Russell, Bertrand (1905)
Definite_description
Movement in Western philosophy
to logic, Bertrand Russell sought to convert the mathematical formulas of physics to symbolic logic. Gottlob Frege began this program of logicism, continuing
Logical_positivism
American philosopher (born 1950)
primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic, and his academic output manifests both systematic and historical interests
Robert_Brandom
British philosopher of language (1913–1988)
theory of meaning in the fifth and sixth of his William James lectures on "Logic and Conversation", delivered at Harvard in 1967. These two lectures were
Paul_Grice
Philosophical tradition
Logic. In this sequel, Logic for Use, Schiller attempted to construct a new logic to replace the formal logic that he had criticized in Formal Logic.
Pragmatism
Semantic distinction in philosophy
like "all bachelors are unmarried" and our knowledge of mathematics (and logic) are in the basic sense the same: all proceeded from our knowledge of the
Analytic–synthetic distinction
Analytic–synthetic_distinction
Philosophical doctrine
Logic". Journal of Symbolic Logic. 14 (1): 52–53. doi:10.2307/2268980. Church, Alonzo (1949). "Review: Alfred Jules Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic"
Verificationism
Philosophical problem about Frege's distinction between concept and object
Begriff Pferd) is a problem in the philosophy of language and philosophy of logic arising from Gottlob Frege's distinction between concept and object. It
Concept_horse_paradox
1924–1936 group of philosophers and scientists
philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of
Vienna_Circle
American philosopher of science
University of Durham. Currently, she is the past president of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) of the International
Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)
Nancy_Cartwright_(philosopher)
BDSM pornographic film production company
Toronto Star. Retrieved 2025-03-09. Paul, Ryan. FBI agents paid to surf for deviant Internet porn Archived 2009-01-22 at the Wayback Machine. Ars Technica
Insex
German writer and philosopher (1905–1997)
Function of General Laws in History" 1943: "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation" 1959: "The Logic of Functional Analysis" 1965: Aspects of Scientific Explanation
Carl_Gustav_Hempel
Austrian philosopher (1879–1944)
Graz School of object theory. Mally was one of the founders of deontic logic and is mainly known for his contributions in that field of research. In
Ernst_Mally
Family of philosophical theories
In philosophy and logic, a deflationary theory of truth (also semantic deflationism or simply deflationism) is one of a family of theories that all have
Deflationary_theory_of_truth
American philosopher (born 1946)
many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy. In
Tyler_Burge
Early-20th-century development in Western philosophy
philosophy. One of the results of the linguistic turn was an increasing focus on logic and philosophy of language, and the cleavage between ideal language philosophy
Linguistic_turn
German philosopher (1891–1953)
contributions to the study of empiricism based on a theory of probability; the logic and the philosophy of mathematics; space, time, and relativity theory; analysis
Hans_Reichenbach
Phenomenon whereby language is used to discuss possible situations
discourse effects of modal expressions using formal tools derived from modal logic. Within philosophy, linguistic modality is often seen as a window into broader
Modality_(semantics)
Iraqi Islamic scholar (1935–1980)
was distorting the teachings and traditions of Islam and presenting his deviant ideas as representative of Islam itself. This, therefore, is what led Imam
Muhammad_Baqir_al-Sadr
Literal meaning of an expression
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Denotation
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
psychology. In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. He wrote the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913)
Alfred_North_Whitehead
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
22 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020. Andy Greenberg. "How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut". Forbes
Peter_Thiel
English mathematician and philosopher (1872–1970)
in the development of classical logic and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see logicism). Russell's article "On Denoting"
Bertrand_Russell
Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist (born 1966)
Mathematics Science Turns Aretaic Historical Linguistic Performative Logic Classical Deviant Mathematical Non-classical Paraconsistent Philosophical Predicate
David_Chalmers
Fifth letter of the Greek alphabet
was used only for long close /eː/. The letter Beta, in turn, took the deviant shape . In Sicyon, a variant glyph resembling an ⟨X⟩ () was used in the
Epsilon
Smaller culture within a larger culture
there thus appear in society "natural areas" or "moral regions" where deviant models concentrate and are re-inforced; they do not accept objectives or
Subculture
Psychological mechanism in adolescence
Locale Brunau". Born, Michel (1 March 1983). Jeunes déviants ou délinquants juvéniles ? [Deviant or delinquent Youths ?] (in French). Brussels: Mardaga
Delinquency_spiral
American mathematician and philosopher (1926–2016)
Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic in recognition of his contributions to the philosophy of logic and mathematics. While breaking with his
Hilary_Putnam
2007 video game
Impossible Quiz is a 2007 point-and-click quiz video game created by a DeviantArt user known as Splapp-me-do. Noted for its difficulty, the game consists
The_Impossible_Quiz
Philosophical view explaining systems in terms of smaller parts
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 34 (4): 539–563. doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1093633905. Väänänen, J. (2001). "Second-Order Logic and Foundations of Mathematics"
Reductionism
Philosophical position developed by Richard Rorty
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Neopragmatism
American Christian philosopher (born 1932)
epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting
Alvin_Plantinga
Austrian philosopher of science (1924–1994)
Guevara or Mao, or Lenin; they bought books on logic! "We have to learn how to think," they said, as if logic has anything to do with that. — From his autobiography
Paul_Feyerabend
State of balance among a set of beliefs, arrived at by considering general principles
reflective equilibrium as an approach to justifying the principles of inductive logic (this is now known as Goodman's method). The term reflective equilibrium
Reflective_equilibrium
In-depth, detailed examination of a particular case
information gain. For example, outlier cases (those which are extreme, deviant or atypical) can reveal more information than the potentially representative
Case_study
American political philosopher (1921–2002)
philosophical points of view. Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in 1999. The latter was
John_Rawls
Analytical philosophical view expounded by Bertrand Russell
mathematical logic, to allow to the full the importance of relations, and then to found upon this secure basis a new philosophical logic, which may hope
Logical_atomism
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922–1974)
Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery, and his doctoral advisor was R. B. Braithwaite. The book Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical
Imre_Lakatos
List of characters appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Eternal Ikaris sees this as betrayal and leads her to be killed by the Deviants, with Sersi becoming the new bridge to Arishem. Hayek was originally hesitant
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A–L
Characters_of_the_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe:_A–L
American philosopher
specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic. Salmon was born January 2, 1951, in Los Angeles to a working-class family
Nathan_Salmon
US-based software and services company
Exchange Commission. Retrieved October 19, 2025. Greenberg, Andy. "How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut". Retrieved
Palantir
American psychologist
][citation needed] By this description, by negatively labeling those seen as deviant from standard cultural norms, the behavior of individuals may be adjusted
David_Rosenhan
American philosopher (1922–1996)
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Thomas_Kuhn
American philosopher (1928–2024)
In the mid and late 1960s, his studies were focused on medieval Arabic logic, but he soon broadened his areas of inquiry in metaphysics and epistemology
Nicholas_Rescher
Polish British philosopher
was a Polish philosopher of Jewish descent. He worked in philosophical logic but published scantly. He was an influential teacher; several of his students
Casimir_Lewy
British philosopher (1916–2013)
British philosopher who was Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest were philosophical logic, ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy
Peter_Geach
1962 book by Thomas S. Kuhn
particular, his writings seemed to me full of egregious errors, both of logic and of observation." This was in an apparent contradiction with the fact
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions
English philosopher (1911–1960)
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J._L._Austin
2022 novel by John Waters
Molly (May 3, 2022). "John Waters's First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised?". The New York Times. Retrieved September 20, 2023.{{cite news}}:
Liarmouth
Sampling method
specific field or a small group. Types of purposive sampling include: Deviant case: The researcher obtains cases that substantially differ from the dominant
Nonprobability_sampling
American philosopher (1906–1998)
his later turn towards aesthetics, where he became better known than in logic and analytic philosophy. During World War II, he served as a psychologist
Nelson_Goodman
Psychological defense mechanism
justifications and excuses for deviant behavior. Amoralizations are important explanations for the rise and persistence of deviant behavior. There exist many
Rationalization_(psychology)
American philosopher (1917–2003)
classical philosophy at Harvard. As a graduate student, he took courses on logic taught by Quine and was classmates with Roderick Chisholm and Roderick Firth
Donald_Davidson_(philosopher)
DEVIANT LOGIC
DEVIANT LOGIC
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Hindu, Indian
Handsome
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Murderer of the Gods
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Son of Goddess
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of either of two Gaelic names, Ó DuibhÃn ‘descendant of DuibhÃn’, a byname meaning ‘little black one’, or Ó DaimhÃn ‘descendant of DaimhÃn’, a byname meaning ‘fawn’, ‘little stag’. These are attenuated versions of Ó Dubháin and Ó Damháin, and are the phonetic origin of Anglicizations with an internal v (as opposed to w, as in Dewan, or monosyllabic forms with an o or u) (see Doane).English and French : nickname, of literal or ironic application, from Middle English, Old French devin, divin ‘excellent’, ‘perfect’ (Latin divinus ‘divine’).
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Devon, DEVAN means "worshiper of the god Dumnonos."Â
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Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Modern
Lord Krishna
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
God
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Kenyan, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Traditional
Divine Gift
Boy/Male
Hindi
Jewel/gem from God.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Shiva
Boy/Male
Muslim
Defiant
Girl/Female
Indian
Like a Goddess (Daughter of Shukraacharya)
Girl/Female
Assamese, British, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Oriya, Sindhi, Tamil
Like a Goddess; Daughter of Shukraacharya; L
Girl/Female
Indian
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Defiant
Boy/Male
Irish
Misfortune.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Light in Dark; Son of Sun
Boy/Male
English
the French town famous for Evian springwater. A blend of Evan and Ian meaning 'John-John.
Surname or Lastname
Irish (County Louth)
Irish (County Louth) : variant of Devine 1.English and French : variant of Devine 2.French : from devin ‘sorcerer’, ‘fortune teller’ (related to the verb deviner ‘to divine’, ‘foretell’).Russian : metronymic from deva ‘girl’, normally a designation of an illegitimate child. Sometimes it may be a patronymic from a nickname for an effeminate man.A Breton bearer of this name was married in Quebec city in 1692.
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Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Lord Shiva
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant spelling of Bircham, a habitational name from a group of villages in Norfolk (Great Bircham, Bircham Newton, and Bircham Tofts), named with Old English brÄ“c ‘newly cultivated ground’ + hÄm ‘homestead’. There is also a Bircham in Devon, named with Old English birce ‘birch’ + hÄm or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’, which could have given rise to the surname.
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Tamil
Victor
Girl/Female
Indian
Prophet muhammads daughter
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, German, Greek
Bee; Young Girl; Pet Form of Melissa
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Ruler with a Spear; Blend of Geri Plus Erica
Female
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Máire, MOIRA means "obstinacy, rebelliousness" or "their rebellion."Â
Boy/Male
Irish
Horseman.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Auspicious, A star
Girl/Female
German
Army of elves.
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Deviate
imp. & p. p.
of Descant
adv.
In a defiant manner.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Descant
a.
Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
n.
See Descant, n.
imp. & p. p.
of Depaint
imp. & p. p.
of Decant
a.
Deviating.
imp. & p. p.
of Deviate
a.
Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
v. t.
To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
v. t.
To decant.
a.
Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
v. t.
To cause to deviate.
a.
Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Depaint
v. i.
To deviate. See Sheer.
a.
Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Decant