Theism and dialetheism
Abstract
The divine attributes of omniscience and omnipotence have faced objections to their very consistency. Such objections rely on reasoning parallel to semantic paradoxes such as the Liar or to set-theoretic paradoxes like Russell's paradox. With the advent of paraconsistent logics, dialetheism — the view that some contradictions are true — became a major player in the search for a solution to such paradoxes. This paper explores whether dialetheism, armed with the tools of paraconsistent logics, has the resources to respond to the objections levelled against the divine attributes.
Citation
Cotnoir , A J 2018 , ' Theism and dialetheism ' , Australasian Journal of Philosophy , vol. 96 , no. 3 , pp. 592-609 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1384846
Publication
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0004-8402Type
Journal article
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© 2017 Australasian Association of Philosophy. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1384846
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