Please wait a minute...
Frontiers of Philosophy in China

ISSN 1673-3436

ISSN 1673-355X(Online)

CN 11-5743/B

Postal Subscription Code 80-983

Front Phil Chin    2011, Vol. 6 Issue (3) : 492-500    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-011-0152-4
research-article
Against Classical Dialetheism
WANG Wenfang()
Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan, China
 Download: PDF(510 KB)   HTML
 Export: BibTeX | EndNote | Reference Manager | ProCite | RefWorks
Abstract

Dialetheism is the view that there are true contradictions. Classical dialetheism holds further the view that the law of excluded middle is indeed a logical law. Most famous dialetheists, such as G. Priest and J. Beall, are classical dialetheists; they take classical dialetheism to be the only plausible solution to the semantic paradoxes. The main contention of the paper is, however, that their views should be rejected. Based on inspecting Priest’s and Beall’s dialetheist theories from a special perspective, this paper contends that classical dialetheism has no natural and plausible way to assign truth values to various truth-ineliminable sentences, i.e., sentences whose truth-conditions essentially involve the property of being true. Several examples of such truth-ineliminable sentences are given in the paper, and two classical dialetheist strategies for assigning them truth values are inspected. This paper argues that none of these strategies is successful.

Keywords dialetheism      truth      truth-ineliminable sentences      semantic paradox     
Corresponding Author(s): WANG Wenfang,Email:wenfwang@hotmail.com   
Issue Date: 05 September 2011
 Cite this article:   
WANG Wenfang. Against Classical Dialetheism[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2011, 6(3): 492-500.
 URL:  
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/10.1007/s11466-011-0152-4
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/Y2011/V6/I3/492
[1] XU Difei. Hintikka’s Logical Revolution[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2019, 14(4): 630-648.
[2] Jan Szaif. Drunkenness as a Communal Practice: Platonic and Peripatetic Perspectives[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2019, 14(1): 94-110.
[3] YUGUO Fei. Scientific Realism and the Meanings of Theoretical Terms[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2014, 9(3): 431-440.
[4] Gerry Coulter. The Embrace of Radical Philosophical Emptiness as a Liberating Conceptualization of Thought in Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2014, 9(2): 194-212.
[5] WEI Yanxia. Why Logical Revisabilism Is Wrong[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2013, 8(3): 507-517.
[6] WANG Wenfang. Filtering Theories of Truth: Compositionality as a Criterion[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2013, 8(1): 156-170.
[7] CHEN Zhen. Why We Care Whether Our Beliefs Are True: An Answer to Stephen Stich?[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2012, 7(1): 142-153.
[8] James O. YOUNG, . Truth, correspondence and deflationism[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2009, 4(4): 563-575.
[9] SUN Si. A critique of relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2007, 2(1): 115-130.
Viewed
Full text


Abstract

Cited

  Shared   
  Discussed