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  • philosopher of dialetheism, which is the view that some contradictions are true. Mentioned on WS discord
    • John may be interested in checking out Graham Priest’s work on dialethism, in particular his book Beyond the Limits of Thought.

dialetheism

05 Nov 2026 - 05 Nov 2026
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      • Dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true.
      • More precisely:
      • a dialetheia is a sentence, A, such that both it and its negation, ¬A, are true.
      • Dialetheism is the view that there are dialetheias — meaning it amounts to the claim that there are true contradictions.
      • As such, dialetheism opposes the so-called **Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC)**.
      • Importantly, dialetheism should be distinguished from trivialism — the claim that all sentences are true. Dialetheism is only the view that some contradictions are true.
      • Dialetheism has been most famously advanced as a response to logical paradoxes, in tandem with a paraconsistent logic.