Graham Priest Quotes on Truth
Graham Priest's In Contradiction (1987, second edition 2006) and the broader dialetheist program defend the heretical thesis that some contradictions are true. The motivating cases are the semantic paradoxes (the Liar sentence and its kin), set-theoretic paradoxes (Russell's paradox, the paradoxes of property abstraction), and certain features of inconsistent legal and moral systems, in each of which the principle of explosion (anything follows from a contradiction) of classical logic generates absurdities the dialetheist position avoids by adopting paraconsistent logic. The framework is supported by the technical work in non-classical logic Priest has developed across Towards Non-Being, Doubt Truth to Be a Liar, and the systematic graduate textbook An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic.
Quotes
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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.”
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Attributed to Graham Priest:
“There is no view from outside thought; even our denials of contradiction are themselves thought.”