Topic: PARACONSISTENCY
Is the Liar Sentence Both True and False?
By Hartry Field
The argument with which I began shows that if we want to disbelieve instances of excluded middle (in the sense of, believe their negations) then we should be dialetheists (not merely that we should accept paraconsistent logics for some purposes). And as Priest has often urged. the most familiar arguments against the coherence of dialetheism are seriously faulty, a result of a refusal to take the doctrine seriously.
To appear in Beall and Armour-Garb, eds., Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford University Press 2004)
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Posted by Tony Marmo
at 00:01 BST
Updated: Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:27 BST
