The object of this paper is to show how one is able to construct a paraconsistent theory of models that reflects much of the classical one. In other words the aim is to demonstrate that there is a ...

Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (who was born in the city of Curitiba in the state of Paraná 78 years ago, and is married with two sons and a daughter, as well as having two granddaughters) has more ...

Known as one Brazil’s most original thinkers, Newton da Costa, a logician from Curitiba, died on April 16 at the age of 94 due to complications resulting from a fall he suffered at his home in ...

Non-classical logics challenge the traditional binary framework of classical reasoning by introducing alternative truth values and inference rules. Paraconsistency, a key branch of non-classical logic ...

Synthese, Vol. 125, No. 1/2, Festschrift in Honor of Newton C. A. Da Costa on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Oct. - Nov., 2000), pp. 55-68 (14 pages) ...