Bantu logic allows contradictory explanations to coexist as causally related
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Bantu logic, however, states that A and B can both be true. The axiom is that explanations might include each other. By being together in an ontological relation, the explanations create a conclusion (or conclusions) that treats A and B separately. In Bantu terms the relations of cause and effect are that if A (one cause) then effect(s) B, C, D, etc. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 1019
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- XREF: This contrast between exclusive and inclusive logics resonates with the book’s stated purpose of understanding Bantu philosophy as a genuine alternative to Western logic. — connects to: Competing psychological explanations of reasoning are often simultaneously valid — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 136; Many phenomena are symbolically unified but lack causal coherence; Contradiction stems from substance-as-totality clashing with substance-as-accidents — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1099