Trivial Dialetheism and the Logic of Paradox

• Authors: Beziau Jean-Yves
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we explain that the paraconsistent logic LP (Logic of Paradox) promoted by Graham Priest can only be supported by trivial dialetheists, i.e., those who believe that all sentences are dialetheias.

Keywords

EN

Dialetheia; Paraconsistent Logic; Many-Valued Logic; Truth

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-56

Dates

online

2015-12-09

Contributors

author

Beziau Jean-Yves

• University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2015.022