Contradiction Club: Dialetheism and the Social World

Journal of Social Ontology

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Emma Bolton¹  Matthew J. Cull¹ 

[1] University of Sheffield Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

关键词: Dialetheism;    Social ontology;    Nonclassical logic;    Metaphysics;    Institutions;   

DOI  :  10.1515/jso-2019-0035

来源: De Gruyter

【 摘 要 】

Putative examples of true contradictions in the social world have been given by dialetheists such as Graham Priest, Richard Routley, and Val Plumwood. However, we feel that it has not been decisively argued that these examples are in fact true contradictions rather than merely apparent. In this paper we adopt a new strategy to show that there are some true contradictions in the social world, and hence that dialetheism is correct. The strategy involves showing that a group of sincere dialetheists can, given an appropriately formed institution, bootstrap contradictions into existence. We discuss objections and consider the implications of this finding for debates over logic.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND