Bolton, E. and Cull, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-2332-1299 (2020) Contradiction club: Dialetheism and the social world. Journal of Social Ontology, 5 (2). pp. 169-180. ISSN 2196-9655
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2020, Emma Bolton and Matthew J. Cull, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Dialetheism; Social ontology; Nonclassical logic; Metaphysics; Institutions |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2020 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2021 15:55 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | De Gruyter |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/jso-2019-0035 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155312 |