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Graham Priest Quotes on Knowledge

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Graham Priest on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Graham Priest:

    “Some contradictions are true.”

  • Attributed to Graham Priest:

    “The limits of thought are themselves dialetheic.”

  • Attributed to Graham Priest:

    “Paraconsistent logic is the logic of the actual world, not only of an ideal one.”

  • Attributed to Graham Priest:

    “Buddhist philosophy and Western dialetheism converge on the structure of paradox.”