Coverbild Exploring the Field

Contradiction Studies – Exploring the Field. An Introduction

Contribution

Gisela Febel, Kerstin Knopf & Martin Nonhoff

2023

Since antiquity in Greece, the Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC) is considered to be the foundation of all philosophy. As Aristotle maintains in Metaphysics, “the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same thing and in the same respect” (1005b, 19–23).

In Febel, Gisela, Kerstin Knopf & Martin Nonhoff (eds.) Contradiction Studies. Exploring the Field. Volume 5 in the Series Contradiction Studies, 1-75. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

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