Dialetheism is the view that there are statements which are both true and false. More precisely, it is the belief that there can be a true statement whose negation is also true. Such statements are called “true contradictions”, dialetheia, or non dualism
A dialetheia is a sentence, such that both it and its negation, are true. If falsity is assumed to be the truth of negation, a dialetheia is a sentence which is both true and false. Such a sentence is, or has, what is called a truth-value glut, in distinction to a gap, a sentence that is neither true nor false.
Dialetheism is the view that there are dialetheias’. If we define a contradiction as a couple of sentences of which one is the negation of the other, or as a conjunction of such sentences, then dialetheism amounts to the claim that there are true contradictions. As such, dialetheism opposes—contradicts—the Law of Non-Contradiction (LNC), sometimes also called the Law of Contradiction.
Aristotle was the one who introduced (what was later to be called) the LNC as “the most certain of all principles” in the book—firmissimum omnium principiorum, as the Medieval theologians said.
Dialetheism was the viewpoint as mentioned in the book ‘In Contradiction’ by Graham Priest, who is credited with giving the first substantial argument for glut theory, and for its defense. (Priest, along with Richard Sylvan, née Routley, coined the neologism ‘dialetheism’, though there is no similar neologism coined for gap theory.)
Ambiguous situations may cause humans to affirm both a proposition and its negation. For example, if John stands in the doorway to a room, it may seem reasonable both to affirm that John is in the room and to affirm that John is not in the room!
The Jain philosophical doctrine of anekantavada—non-one-sidedness—states that all statements are true in some sense and false in another!
Simply put what looks like six to you may be nine to someone else!
In the end it’s a point of view!
Being right is only a time dependant factor! So if you are in an argument remember Dialetheism!
Of course there is no argument that people like Anand Gopal Mahindra are important for atma nirbhar bharat!
It is night but Dialetheism means that it is day somewhere else!
You make your choice! I have made a choice to sleep!
SHubh Ratri!
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