Doubt truth to be a liar

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Title:

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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Summary

Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. This is a view which runs against orthodoxy in logic and metaphysics since Aristotle, and has implications for many of the core notions of philosophy. Doubt Truth to Be a Liar explores these implications for truth, rationality, negation, and the nature of logic, and develops further the defence of dialetheism first mounted in Priest's In Contradiction, a second edition of which is also available.