Subject: Philosophy Book Title: In Contradiction
In Contradiction
Priest, Graham
, Universities of Melbourne and St Andrews
Second Edition
Print publication date: 2006
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926330-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263301.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926330-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263301.001.0001
Abstract:
This book advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that has flown in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle's time. The book has been at the centre of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since the first edition was published in 1987. This text contains the second edition of the book. It expands upon the original in various ways, and also contains the author's reflections on developments over the last two decades.
Keywords: true contradictions, dialetheism, Western philosophy, Aristotle, Orthodoxy
Keywords: true contradictions, dialetheism, Western philosophy, Aristotle, Orthodoxy
Table of Contents
Preface
Dialetheism
1. Semantic Paradoxes
2. Set Theoretic Paradoxes
3. Gödel's Theorem
4. Truth and Falsity
5. Dialetheic Semantics for Extensional Connectives
6. Entailment
7. Pragmatics
8. The Disjunctive Syllogism and Quasi-Validity
9. Semantic Closure and the Philosophy of Language
10. Set Theory and The Philosophy of Mathematics
11. The Metaphysics of Change I: The Instant of Change
12. The Metaphysics of Change II: Motion
13. Norms and the Philosophy of Law
14. The Transconsistent
15. The Metaphysics of Change III: Time
16. Minimally Inconsistent LP
17. Inconsistent Arithmetic
18. Paraconsistent Set Theory
19. Autocommentary on the First Edition
20. Comments on Some Critics
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263301.001.0001
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