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Overview

A dialetheia is a sentence A such that both it and its negation (\neg A) are true. Dialetheism is the view that there are dialetheias. In other words, dialetheism admits the existence of true contradictions.

%%ANKI Cloze A {dialetheia} is a {sentence such that both it and its negation are true}. Reference: Graham Priest, Francesco Berto, and Zach Weber, “Dialetheism,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman, Summer 2024 (Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2024), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/dialetheism/.

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%%ANKI Cloze {Dialetheism} is the view that {dialetheia} exist. Reference: Graham Priest, Francesco Berto, and Zach Weber, “Dialetheism,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman, Summer 2024 (Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2024), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/dialetheism/.

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Bibliography

  • Graham Priest, Francesco Berto, and Zach Weber, “Dialetheism,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman, Summer 2024 (Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2024), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/dialetheism/.
  • Nikk Effingham, An Introduction to Ontology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013).