»Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.« (Ibn Sīnā)
Readings
Aristoteles. 1990. Metaphysik. Buch Gamma. In der Übersetzung von Friedrich Bassenge. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 72–102. [Engl.: Aristotle. [1971] 1993. Metaphysics. Books Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. Translated and with Notes by Christopher Kirwan, 1–26 (book gamma), notes 75–121.]
Heraklit. Fragment Nr. 10. | Heraclitus. Fragment No. 10.
Supplementary Readings
Gottlieb, Paula. 2019. Aristotle on Non-contradiction. In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford: Stanford University.https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/aristotle-noncontradiction/ (19.05.2022).
Ficara, Elena. 2021. The Birth of Dialetheism. In History and Philosophy of Logic 42(3), 281–296 [PDF 1–17].
Priest, Graham. 2005. Doubt Truth to be a Liar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chap. 1: ›Aristotle on the Law of Non-Contradiction‹, 7–42 & Chap. 4: ›Contradiction‹, 75–87.