Introduction to the special issue on contradictions.
In Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 20 (01), 5-12.
print
ISBN: 978-3-96769-433-8
DOI:
10.46771/9783967694345_1
problem to be solved
“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff
driver
“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka
coherence in thought
“The imperative of non-contradiction generally produces a coherence in thought that is often at odds with social complexities.”
Yan Suarsana
diversity and plurality
“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel
paradox
“The basis of law is not an idea as a systematic unified principle but a paradox.”
Andreas Fischer-Lescano