Full Idea
Paraconsistent logics were only developed in order to prevent computers, such as expert medical systems, from deducing anything whatsoever from contradictory data, because of the principle of 'ex falso quodlibet'.
Gist of Idea
Paraconsistent logics are to prevent computers crashing when data conflicts
Source
Quentin Meillassoux (After Finitude; the necessity of contingency [2006], 3)
Book Reference
Meillassoux: 'After Finitude: the necessity of contingency', ed/tr. Brassier,R [Bloomsbury 2008], p.78
Related Idea
Idea 9108 From an impossibility anything follows [William of Ockham]