Doubt Truth to be a Liar

Graham Priest

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The Law of Non-Contradiction has been high orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The so-called Law has been the subject of radical challenge in recent years by dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are indeed true. Many philosophers have taken the Law to be central to many of our most important philosophical concepts. In Doubt Truth to be a Liar, Graham Priest mounts the case against this. Starting with an analysis of Aristotle on the Law, he discusses the nature of truth, or rationality, or negation, and of logic itself, and argues that the Law is inessential to all of these things. The book takes off from Priest's earlier book, In Contradiction(a second edition of which is also published by OUP), developing its themes largely without recourse to formal logic.

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 Details

Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publish Date: May 15th, 2008
Pages: 240
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 0.60in - 0.80lb
EAN: 9780199238514
Categories: • Logic• Epistemology• Metaphysics

About the Author

Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and Arché Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews

Praise for this book

"This is a rewarding book. It is a must-read for everyone interested in the philosophy of paraconsistent logic."--Bartosz Wieckowski, Studia Logica