Contradiction vs Dialetheism - What's the difference?
contradiction | dialetheism |
(uncountable) The act of contradicting.
(countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
(countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
(logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
(philosophy) The view that there are true contradictions, i.e. true statements whose negations are also true.
* 2005 , Laurence Goldstein, Logic: key concepts in philosophy , page 158:
As nouns the difference between contradiction and dialetheism
is that contradiction is (uncountable) the act of contradicting while dialetheism is (philosophy) the view that there are true contradictions, ie true statements whose negations are also true.contradiction
English
(wikipedia contradiction)Noun
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
Synonyms
* (proposition that is false for all values of its variables)Antonyms
* (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) tautologyCoordinate terms
* (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) contingency, tautologydialetheism
English
Noun
(-) (wikipedia dialetheism)- [It] is important to point out that endorsing dialetheism is not the same as rejecting logic or rational argumentation.
