Questions tagged [dialetheism]
Dialetheism is the view that there are true contradictions.
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Why does the Curry paradox require a separate solution in dialetheism?
On the Dialetheism entry on SEP, it is stated that, although dialetheism can offer a solution to the Liar Paradox (by accepting the Liar sentence as a true dialetheia), dialetheists need a separate ...
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Liar's paradox, dialethism and law of excluded-middle [duplicate]
I've been reading about liar's paradox and its responses. I like Graham Priest, fantastic philospher and proponent of dialethism.
Graham argues that liar's paradox is solved by claiming that statement:...
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Why can't the dialetheist say that the Curry sentence is both true and false?
In the SEP article for dialetheism, it is said that
A dialetheist, though, cannot simply accept that the Curry sentence is both true and false, because if it is true then ⊥ follows. Dialetheists need ...
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Has anyone recast Aristotle's Law of Noncontradiction as a law of recontextualization?
Aristotle's Law of Noncontradiction (LNC) is translated in a variety of ways:
Let us next state what this principle is."It is impossible for the
same attribute at once to belong and not to ...
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Do contradictions rule out holism and vice versa, and pluralism?
Quine has a holism (based in radical empiricism) that is very appealing. It's a significant part of his Two Dogmas of Empiricism, which many say is the most significant philosophical work in the 20th ...
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Why shouldn’t I be a skeptic about the Necessitation Rule for alethic modal logics?
Alethic modal logics for metaphysical possibility and necessity usually have the Necessitation Rule:
From ⊢P, infer ⊢□P.
Doesn’t this commit us to the meta-notion that logical necessity modulo some ...
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When does a conditional statement hold true according to Dialetheists?
I understand that for the consequent to really follow from the antecedent, it (the consequent) must be both relevant and necessary given the antecedent.
So my question is: which types of conditional ...
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Is there a rule/s for determining whether a contradiciton is a Dialetheia?
If not, is there a set of accepted properties or qualities that dialetheic statements have?
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Dialethic machines and incompatibilist free will
Preamble: although I believe in the LNC for Aristotelian/Quinean reasons and the argument from explosions to boot, and am not altogether adept at modal logic in general, much less counterpossible ...
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The absorption of parathetic sentences into the One True Fact
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At least "hypothetically" or "for the sake of argument," I would like to use the slingshot argument to compare and contrast various sentence-types. So for now, ...
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Is there a difference between contradictory and the opposite?
Is there a difference between contradictory and the opposite?
In natural language, we have the idea of opposite such as 'The opposite of good is evil'. In logic, we can represent that symbolically. ...
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? as a logical connective
I am reading Doubt Truth to be a Liar by Graham Priest. In it he uses the symbol ? as a logical connective, and I am unsure of it's meaning.
Given his use of ? (a ? a) to denote the Law of Identity, ...
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Reference needed: why is the Liar Paradox regarded as not important/fringe by some?
Most people, when first encountering the Liar Paradox, react in one of two ways. One reaction is not to take the Paradox seriously and say they will not reason any more about it. - Dowden, IEP article ...
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What is the exact form of law of non-contradiction that dialetheism rejects?
Dialetheism asserts that there are sentences that are both true and false, e.g. the Liar. This seems to, quite obviously, go against the law of non-contradiction (LNC), and indeed Priest seems to ...
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Semantic rules overdetermine the truth value of Liar Paradox
I am reading Graham Priest's In Contradiction (p.14) and he mentioned that the semantic rules of 'this sentence' and 'is True' overdetermine and underdetermine the Liar Paradox and its counterpart ...