The Law of Non-Contradiction

Produktbeschreibung

The Law of Non-Contradiction - that no contradiction can be true - has been a seemingly unassailable dogma since the work of Aristotle. It is an assumption challenged from a variety of angles in this collection of original papers. Twenty-three of the world's leading experts investigate the 'law', considering arguments for and against it and discuss methodological issues that arise. The result is a balanced inquiry into a venerable principle of logic, one that raisesquestions at the very centre of logic itself. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction: At the Intersection of Truth and Falsity


* Part I: Setting up the Debate


* 1: Graham Priest: What's So Bad About Contradictions?


* Part II: What is the LNC?


* 2: Ross T. Brady: On the Formalization of the Law of Non-Contradiction


* 3: Patrick Grim: What is a Contradiction?


* 4: Greg Restall: Laws of Non-Contradiction, Laws of the Excluded Middle, and
Logics


* 5: R. M. Sainsbury: Option Negation and Dialetheias


* 6: Achille C. Varzi: Conjunction and Contradiction


* Part III: Methodological Issues in the Debate


* 7: Bradley Armour-Garb: Diagnosing Dialetheism


* 8: Bryson Brown: Knowledge and Non-Contradiction


* 9: Otavio Bueno and Mark Colyvan: Logical Non-Apriorism and the 'Law' of
Non-Contradiction


* 10: David Lewis: Letters to Beall and Priest


* 11: Michael D. Resnik: Holism and the Revision of Logic


* Part IV: Against the LNC


* 12: JC Beall: True and False - As If


* 13: Jon Cogburn: The Philosophical Basis of What? The Anti-Realist Route to
Dialetheism


* 14: Jay Garfield: To Pee and not to Pee? Could That Be the Question?
(Further Reflections of the Dog)


* 15: Frederick Kroon: Realism and Dialetheism


* 16: Edwin D. Mares: Semantic Dialetheism


* 17: Vann McGee: Ramsey's Dialetheism


* Part V: For the LNC


* 18: Laurence Goldstein: The Barber, Russell's Paradox, Catch-22, God,
Contradiction, and More


* 19: Greg Littman and Keith Simmons: A Critique of Dialetheism


* 20: Stewart Shapiro: Simple Truth, Contradiction, and Consistency


* 21: Neil Tennant: An Anti-Realist Critique of Dialetheism


* 22: Alan Weir: There Are No True Contradictions


* 23: Edward N. Zalta: In Defence of the Law of Non-Contradiction