Paraconsistency is the view that logical contradictions do not imply everything, and dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are actually true. Though both views are currently unorthodox, they have recently been at the centre of a number of debates in logic and metaphysics. In this talk Graham Priest will explain these views, their history, and some of the issues that surround them.
“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”
Julia Lossau
“According to Niklas Luhmann, space is a ‘special facility to negate contradictions’”.
Julia Lossau
“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
“Contradictions need to be articulated in order to exist.”
Martin Nonhoff