(PARA)CONSISTEN⊥

If everything were poetry
then nothing would be…

If only a verse were self-contained
If only a part were the whole
If only everything holds

Yet some things dare to be bold
Some contradictions are truly the thing
Consistent or inconsistent,
Your verses won’t ever explode
When down the rabbit hole


For context, paraconsistency (see paraconsistent logic) is the idea that coherence is possible even without consistency—i.e., contradictory statements can coexist without leading to a logical explosion (a scenario in which anything can be proven true from a contradiction), which occurs in classical logic. In paraconsistent logic, this principle of explosion does not hold.


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T!el Fajardo

Art still thrills me. Aphantasic brazilian writer, born in the 90's. I enjoy reading mostly poetry, sci-fi, and shonen-seinen manga. Favorite authors: Asimov, Tolkien, Guilherme de Almeida, Paulo Leminski, Douglas Adams, Tite Kubo, Yoshihiro Togashi... I also write songs.

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