Shrieking in the face of vengeance
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01/07/2018Author
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Abstract
Paraconsistent dialetheism is the view that some contradictions are true and that the inference rule ex falso quod libet (a.k.a. explosion) is invalid. A long-standing problem for paraconsistent dialetheism is that it has difficulty making sense of situations where people use locutions like ‘just true’ and ‘just false’. Jc Beall recently advocated a general strategy, which he terms shrieking, for solving this problem and thereby strengthening the case for paraconsistent dialetheism. However, Beall’s strategy fails, and seeing why it fails brings into greater focus just how daunting the just-true problem is for the dialetheist.
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Scharp , K 2018 , ' Shrieking in the face of vengeance ' , Analysis , vol. 78 , no. 3 , anx163 , pp. 454-463 . https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx163
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Analysis
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Peer reviewed
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0003-2638Type
Journal article
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx163
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