Doubt Truth to be a Liar [Hardcover]

Graham Priest (Author)

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1 edition (Dec 15 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199263280
ISBN-13: 978-0199263288
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

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"This wide-ranging book is divided into four Parts: Truth, Negation, Rationality and Logic. Priest's discussion of these topics is centered around their bearing on his doctrine of dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are true; but the discussions are of great interest independent of dialetheism. The quality of the discussion is generally very high, and the book is a must-read for anyone interested in the central questions of the philosophy of logic. . . . I found this a thoroughly stimulating book. I recommend it with great enthusiasm." -- Hartry Field, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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

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Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true. This is a view which runs against orthodoxy in logic and metaphysics since Aristotle, and has implications for many of the core notions of philosophy. Doubt Truth to Be a Liar explores these implications for truth, rationality, negation, and the nature of logic, and develops further the defence of dialetheism first mounted in Priest's In Contradiction, a second edition of which is also available.

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Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true: there are sentences (statements, propositions, or whatever one takes truth-bearers to be), , such that both and - are true, that is, such that is both true and false. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yay!, May 18 2011

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This review is from: Doubt Truth to be a Liar (Hardcover)

Read this book! Priest covers all his bases, though all these matters are hardly settled. Most importantly, though, is the establishment of the rationality of belief in contradiction. Actually, the argument for the insufficiency of classical negation is priceless. You can't come away from Priest without having your perspective broadened. This is great for lovers of logic and questioners/ philosophers in general.

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