Graham Priest Quotes
Graham Priest is a British-born Australian and American philosopher, distinguished professor at the City University of New York, and the foremost living advocate of dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are true. In Contradiction defended dialetheism through the analysis of the paradoxes of self-reference, while Beyond the Limits of Thought traced the same dialetheic structure across the history of philosophy from Aristotle through Hegel to Wittgenstein. The quotes below are attributed to Graham Priest, organized by topic.
Graham Priest on Knowledge
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Attributed to Graham Priest:
“The limits of thought are themselves dialetheic.”
Graham Priest on Mind
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Attributed to Graham Priest:
“There is no view from outside thought; even our denials of contradiction are themselves thought.”
Graham Priest on Truth
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Attributed to Graham Priest:
“Some contradictions are true.”
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Attributed to Graham Priest:
“Paraconsistent logic is the logic of the actual world, not only of an ideal one.”
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Attributed to Graham Priest:
“Buddhist philosophy and Western dialetheism converge on the structure of paradox.”