Doubt Truth to Be a Liar

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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 defense of dialetheism first mounted in Priest's In Contradiction, a second edition of which is also available. Zusammenfassung 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. This title explores these implications for truth, rationality, negation, and the nature of logic, and develops a defense of dialetheism. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Truth 1: Aristotle on the Law of Non-Contradiction 2: Theories of Truth 3: Trivialism II. Negation 4: Contradiction 5: Boolean Negation 6: Denial and Rejection III. Rationality 7: Rational Belief 8: Belief Revision 9: Consistency and the Empirical Sciences IV. Logic 10: Logic and Revisability 11: Validity 12: Logical Pluralism

Product details

• Authors: Graham Priest, Graham (Universities of Melbourne and St A Priest
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2005
• EAN: 9780199263288
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926328-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge