Doubt truth to be a liar /
The Law of Non-Contradiction has been high orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The so-called Law has been the subject of radical challenge in recent years by dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are indeed true. Many philosophers have taken the Law to be central to many of our...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Law of Non-Contradiction has been high orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The so-called Law has been the subject of radical challenge in recent years by dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are indeed true. Many philosophers have taken the Law to be central to many of our most important philosophical concepts. This book mounts the case against this view. Starting with an analysis of Aristotle on the Law, it discusses the nature of truth, rationality, negation, and logic itself, and argues that the Law is inessential to all of these things. The book develops Priest's earlier ideas in In Contradiction. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199263280 9780199263288 9781435622241 1435622243 9780191532474 0191532479 9780191603631 0191603635 |