ABSTRACT

Included below are the extant introductory fragments o f the proposed monograph.1 [Editors]

2.1 Tàble of contents

Sylvan ’s intentions as to the contents o f the proposed monograph at the time o f his death are (at least partially) disclosed by the following Table o f Contents, found amongst his papers. It was drafted in October 1995. [Editors]

APPLICATIONS OF PARARELE\ANT LOGICS 0. Introduction 1. Initial survey

1. Kinds and features of relevant and paraconsistent logics 2. Wide-ranging philosophical and theoretical applications of

pararelevant logics 3. On the relevance of pararelevant logics to cognitive and computing

science

II. Detailed Applications

4. On relevant conditionals, and relevant applications thereof 5. Relevant containment and content-inclusion logics 6. Conditional probability as the probability of a conditional 7. Nonclassical probability theories 8. Induction as the converse of deduction

III Unfinished Logical Business: tentative and proposed applications

9. Nondemonstrative reasoning and nonponible logics 10. Nondeductive reasoning: induction and abduction 11. Preference, decision and rationality in the presence of inconsistency 12. Rational decision theory without paradoxes

13. Building up that exclusive classical virtue, Rationality 14. On weight of argument 15. Universal theory achievement: a theory for every phenomenon

IV Critical Addendum

16. Natural logic: another myth 17. Bourgeois logic from the Ivy Halls.