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In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the center of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since its first publication in 1987. This second edition of the book substantially expands upon the original in various ways, and also contains the author's reflections on developments over the last two decades. Further aspects of dialetheism are discussed in the companion volume, Doubt Truth to be a Liar, also published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
| 1 | Semantic paradoxes | 9 |
| 2 | Set theoretic paradoxes | 28 |
| 3 | Godel's theorem | 39 |
| 4 | Truth and falsity | 53 |
| 5 | Dialetheic semantics for extensional connectives | 73 |
| 6 | Entailment | 82 |
| 7 | Pragmatics | 94 |
| 8 | The disjunctive syllogism and quasi-validity | 110 |
| 9 | Semantic closure and the philosophy of language | 125 |
| 10 | Set theory and the philosophy of mathematics | 141 |
| 11 | The metaphysics of change I : the instant of change | 159 |
| 12 | The metaphysics of change II : motion | 172 |
| 13 | Norms and the philosophy of law | 182 |
| 14 | The transconsistent | 207 |
| 15 | The metaphysics of change III : time | 213 |
| 16 | Minimally inconsistent LP | 221 |
| 17 | Inconsistent arithmetic | 231 |
| 18 | Paraconsistent set theory | 247 |
| 19 | Autocommentary on the first edition | 262 |
| 20 | Comments on some critics | 284 |
Overview
In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a view that flies in the face of orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The book has been at the center of the controversies surrounding dialetheism ever since its first publication in 1987. This second edition of the book substantially expands upon the original in various ways, and also contains the author's reflections on developments over the last two decades. Further aspects of dialetheism are discussed...