Doubt truth to be a liar / Graham Priest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Priest, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Contradiction.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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 alsoavailable.

Contents:

Aristotle on the law of non-contradiction

Theories of truth

Trivialism

Contradiction

Boolean negation

Denial and rejection

Rational belief

Belief revision

Consistency and the empirical sciences

Logic and revisability

Validity

Logical pluralism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-923851-0

1-281-19820-X

9786611198206

0-19-153247-9

1-4356-2224-3

OCLC:

191826341