Doubt truth to be a liar
by
 
Priest, Graham.

Title
: 
Doubt truth to be a liar

Author
: 
Priest, Graham.

ISBN
: 
9780199263288

Personal Author
: 
Priest, Graham.

Publication Information
: 
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Physical Description
: 
xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents
: 
1. Aristotle on the law of non-contradiction -- 2. Theories of truth -- 3. Trivialism -- 4. Contradiction -- 5. Boolean negation -- 6. Denial and rejection -- 7. Rational belief -- 8. Belief revision -- 9. Consistency and the empirical sciences -- 10. Logic and revisability -- 11. Validity -- 12. Logical pluralism.

Abstract
: 
"The book is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand dialetheism; (especially) for anyone who wishes to continue to endorse the old Aristotelian orthodoxy; and, more generally, for anyone who wishes to understand the role that contradiction plays in our thinking."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
: 
Truth.
 
Contradiction.
 
Logic.


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