In contradiction: a study of the transconsistent
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Main Author: Priest, Graham (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon Press 2006
Edition:Expanded ed
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-316) and index
Semantic paradoxes -- Set theoretic paradoxes -- Godel's theorem -- Truth and falsity -- Dialetheic semantics for extensional connectives -- Entailment -- Pragmatics -- The disjunctive syllogism and quasi-validity -- Semantic closure and the philosophy of language -- Set theory and the philosophy of mathematics -- The metaphysics of change I : the instant of change -- The metaphysics of change II : motion -- Norms and the philosophy of law -- The transconsistent -- The metaphysics of change III : time -- Minimally inconsistent LP -- Inconsistent arithmetic -- Paraconsistent set theory -- Autocommentary on the first edition -- Comments on some critics
Priest advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a perspective that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristole and remains at the centre of philosophical debate. This edition contains the author's reflections on developments since 1987
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 327 p.)
ISBN:1435622251
9781435622258

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