Surely some seeming contradictions can be resolved, but I don’t think this is true of all of them. For instance, I don’t think the Liar Sentence and o...
Let’s see what this means through 2 examples. Suppose we have an object that is round on the front side, but not round on the back side. We can unders...
A contradiction is just a true sentence with a true negation. Or, in other words, a sentence that is both true and false at the same time and in the s...
- Well sure. For one thing, Plato and Aristotle never seriously considered dialectical responses to this problem. Moreover, Priest connects his Gluon ...
LP in particular deals with contradictions by inferring only those propositions that have interconnections with them; thereby allowing us to reason ab...
But I should say that not all Paraconsistent Logics block disjunction introduction. Some of them block Disjunctive Syllogism. These are the ones I fav...
The reason that I personally want to block ex falso quodlibet is because I think that some contradictions are true. Therefore, I don’t want my theorie...
I will be posting a full review of the book on my blog at alvincapello.com soon. I will be sure to dm you as soon as that happens. But for some idea o...
Well, one good reason to use it is that LP can deal with contradictory theories. Classical and other non-paraconsistent logics cannot do this. I don’t...
I don’t think it’s correct to say that a logic is either valid or sound. To be sure, most logics do have valid arguments in them, but the logic itself...
- It depends on the type of paraconsistent logic. Some of them understand negation to be a subcontrary-forming operator (subcontraries, recall, are pa...
I’m actually claiming that about you. Abraham is a prophet of Islam. Therefore, Allah is the god of abraham. Allah does not instruct his followers to ...
As I have said numerous times, nothing is tastier in the quantificational sense, but not the ontological sense. Since we keep going in circles and you...
- This makes it amply clear that you are indeed conflating the two senses of the term. As before, no object lies in the region, but it is not the case...
I'll show you how it works in LP. In LP, we have 3 truth-values: T, P, F. 2 of these values, i.e. T and P, are designated, while F is undesignated. T ...
If that's the case, then as I explained above, premises 3 and 4 are false. Because they both assert that the state of nonexistence has a length which ...
Working my way through God, Existence, and Fictional Objects: The Case for Meinongian Theism John-Mark L. Miravalle. A very interesting little book wh...
Again, you are assigning these lengths to nothing in the quantificational sense, but not in the ontological sense. To ask again, do you not recognize ...
For instance, Graham Priest's Logic of Paradox is logic in which sentences can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect. Priest...
Again, I would assign these to nothing in the quantificational sense, i.e. in the sense that I would not assign them to anything. But I would not assi...
You are still equivocating on the term 'nothing'. All I can do in response is to emphasize that I can only assign these to nothing in the quantificati...
These are interesting remarks. While I do recognize that you are describing one traditional way of characterizing Dialectical Logic, I am coming at it...
- As I explained above, you are equivocating on the use of the term ‘nothing.’ We can correctly say that these lengths match up to nothing in the quan...
No object in your universe has these lengths, so I would not assign them to anything. This doesn’t at all mean that I would assign them to the state o...
I would say this in my head, but I would not thereby mean that the state of nonexistence is 0.5 or 9 cm long, since the state of nonexistence cannot h...
If Nothing is understood to mean the state of nonexistence, then these 2 statements are false. For what they're claiming is that "The state of nonexis...
I should direct the OP's attention to this article by Behnam Zolgadr, which expands upon Graham Priest's Gluon Theory. In short, Zolghadr argues that ...
Perhaps it should also be mentioned that Graham Priest in his work entitled “One” posits Nothingness as a rather special kind of object; special in th...
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