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The value of incoherence

Philosophical Issues, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 37-58, October 2024.
Abstract I argue that level‐incoherence is epistemically valuable in a specific set of epistemic environments: those in which it is easy to acquire justified false beliefs about normative requirements of epistemic rationality. I argue that in these environments level‐incoherence is the rationally dominant strategy.
Claire Field
wiley   +1 more source

Incapability or Contradiction? Deguchi’s Self-as-We in Light of Nishida’s Absolutely Contradictory Self-Identity

Open Philosophy
Deguchi’s Self-as-We aims to vindicate a holistic conception of self by working out the implications of what it is to be an agent in light of the East Asian tradition.
Sawada Jun, Takagi Shunichi
doaj   +1 more source

The Liar Paradox in Plato [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2015
Although most scholars trace the Liar Paradox to Plato’s contemporary, Eubulides, the paper argues that Plato builds something very like the Liar Paradox into the very structure of his dialogues with significant consequences for understanding his views ...
Richard McDonough
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The sting of negativity: Irad Kimhi and Michael Della Rocca on the Parmenidean challenge

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 577-595, June 2024.
Abstract Irad Kimhi considers the conundrum, first addressed by Parmenides, of how negative facts can be the case and be thought, to be the puzzle that philosophy has been working to solve since Plato and Aristotle and wants to do his part by criticizing Frege's dissociation of sense and force and developing a more Aristotelian account of judgment ...
Anton Friedrich Koch
wiley   +1 more source

Why and how to be a Dialetheist

Studia Philosophica Estonica, 2008
In the first part the paper rehearses the main arguments why to be a dialetheist (i.e. why to assume that some contradictions are true). Dialetheism, however, has been criticised as irrational or self-refutating.
Manuel Bremer
doaj  

Contradiction or not Contradiction. Hegel's Dialectic between Brandom and Priest [PDF]

, 2012
The aim of the paper is to analyse Brandom’s account of Hegel’s conception of determinate negation and the role this structure plays in the dialectical process with respect to the problem of contradiction.
Bordignon, Michela
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Dialetheismus, semantische Geschlossenheit und Konditionale [PDF]

, 2011
Ein Einwand gegen die Formulierung einer semantisch geschlossenen Sprache vor dem Hintergrund des sogenannten Dialetheismus zielt darauf ab, mittels eines verstärkten Lügnersatzes die Trivialität der Sprache nachzuweisen.
Thomann, Marius
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Paraconsistency and Plausible Argumentation in Generative Grammar: A Case Study [PDF]

, 2013
While the analytical philosophy of science regards inconsistent theories as disastrous, Chomsky allows for the temporary tolerance of inconsistency between the hypotheses and the data.
Kertész, András, Rákosi, Csilla
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Neutrosophic Rings I [PDF]

, 2011
In this paper, we present some elementary properties of neutrosophic rings. The structure of neutrosophic polynomial rings is also presented. We provide answers to the questions raised by Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache in [1] concerning ...
Agboola A.A.A., Akinola A.D., Oyebola O.Y.   +2 more
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The Combination of Paradoxical, Uncertain, and Imprecise Sources of Information based on DSmT and Neutro-Fuzzy Inference [PDF]

, 2004
The management and combination of uncertain, imprecise, fuzzy and even paradoxical or high conflicting sources of information has always been, and still remains today, of primal importance for the development of reliable modern information systems ...
Dezert, Jean, Smarandache, Florentin
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