Dear Ralph,
Sorry you are puzzled - the problem could be email shorthand.
On your first response, Priest says that we can say true things about
the world in the form 'P-P' (eg 'The sky is blue and not blue' or
'His head is bald and not bald') - whether this counts as saying much
about
I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
At 12:19 PM 9/17/2005 +0930, Ian Hunt wrote:
Dear Ralph,
Sorry you are puzzled - the problem could be email shorthand.
On your first response, Priest says that we can say true things about the
world in the form 'P-P' (eg 'The sky is
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Dear Ralph,
I wonder what the purpose
I am a little puzzled here. See below:
At 12:11 PM 9/16/2005 +1000, Ian Hunt wrote:
Dear Ralph,
Now I see your point - it was not clear before. (BTW In
Contradiction is earlier - the science and society article is based
on it but it does spell out more completely his argument). I agree
with
Priest, Graham. 'Dialectic and Dialetheic', Science and Society 1990, 53,
388-415.
Priest is an odd duck. He illustrates the problem of combining two
disparate enterprises: the pursuit of logic as a pure formal enterprise (in
his case paraconsistent logic, which admits of true
