Change of logic, without change of meaning
Abstract Change of logic is typically taken as requiring that the meanings of the connectives change too. As a result, it has been argued that legitimate rivalry between logics is under threat. This is, in a nutshell, the meaning‐variance argument, traditionally attributed to Quine.
Hitoshi Omori, Jonas R. B. Arenhart
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Disagreement and suspended judgement
Can someone who suspends judgement about a certain proposition
be in a relational state of disagreement with someone who believes
as well as with someone who disbelieves
? This paper argues for an affirmative answer. It develops an account of the notions of suspended judgement and disagreement that explains how and why the suspender is in a ...
Filippo Ferrari
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Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success
Whether I take some action that aims at desired consequence C depends on whether or not I take it to be true that if I so act, I will bring C about and that if I do not, I will fail to. And the action will succeed if and only if my beliefs are true. We argue that two theses follow: (I) To believe a conditional is to be disposed to infer its consequent ...
Hugh Mellor, Richard Bradley
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Abstract Both Heidegger and Wittgenstein consider the possibility of a philosophical inquiry of an absolutely universal scope—an inquiry into the being of all beings, in Heidegger’s case, and into the logical form of everything that can be meaningfully said, in Wittgenstein’s.
Gilad Nir
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Paraconsistency and its Possibilities: a personalised and partial perspective of the past [PDF]
I take paraconsistent logic to be one of the most important and significant developments in logic and metaphysics in the last 100 years, challenging, as it does, one of the deepest dogmas entrenched in Western philosophy: that consistency is a sine qua ...
Graham Priest
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Contradiction Club: Dialetheism and the Social World
Putative examples of true contradictions in the social world have been given by dialetheists such as Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Val Plumwood.
Emma Bolton, Matthew J. Cull
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Indefinite Extensibility—Dialetheic Style [PDF]
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ABSOLUTE CONTRADICTION, DIALETHEISM, AND REVENGE [PDF]
AbstractIs there a notion ofcontradiction—let us call it, for dramatic effect, “absolute”—makingallcontradictions, so understood, unacceptable also for dialetheists? It is argued in this paper that there is, and that spelling it out brings some theoretical benefits.
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Newton da Costa on True Contradictions: from aporias to reality
Dialetheism is the thesis that some contradictions are true. In this paper, we explore claims to such a thesis to be found in some early philosophical writings of Newton da Costa, most notably in his book Ensaio Sobre os Fundamentos da Lógica (hereafter
Ederson Safra Melo +1 more
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The “Ontological Difference” Again. A Dialetheic Perspective on Heidegger’s Mainstay
This paper intends to offer a new assessment of the “Ontological Difference” (OD), one of Martin Heidegger’s mainstays, in the light of the metaphysical view called “dialetheism”.
Gandellini Francesco
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