RE: Dialetheism
November 17, 2016 at 5:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 5:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2016 at 5:25 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: We all think everything for non-rational reasons, ultimately. But some things are nevertheless rational things to think and some things are indeed irrational things to think.Indeed.
Quote:To think something is what it is is rational. To think something is what it is not is irrational.Perhaps, but is it inaccurate?
Quote:Statements such as ""There are no absolutes" is an absolute truth" is as irrational as a statement can get, it's a flat-out contradiction.Right, thats the point that dialetheism makes. Are you agreeing...or disagreeing...and think about that for a moment...since you may be invoking a dialetheistic statement either way.
Quote:If you think "A= not A" can possibly be true then you're simply wrong.Why, because those are the rules? Are they the rules? If dialetheistic statements exist they may not be, and so invoking them is begging the question...which is against the rules, but nevertheless you think it's true.........
(as do I, btw. Intuitively and by way of a priori statements I also consider such statements to be some subtle sort of -something- illogicval.....but I acknowledge the difficulty in identifying exactly what that is while remaining logical about it)
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