Do you know what is Dialetheism?
It 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
Ambiguous situations may cause humans to affirm both a proposition and its negation.
People who believe this are called Dialetheists!
Dialetheists argue that certain persistent puzzles are best explained by accepting them as true contradictions!
Now read this statement; “This statement is false.”
If the above statement is true then it is FALSE! But if the statement is false then it is TRUE!
Then you have the typical teen or the adolescent being! He or she can be both “an adult” and “not an adult”!
Another common example used is the transition!
The moment a person leaves a room. At the exact instant of crossing the boundary, a dialetheist might argue they are both “in” and “not in” the room.
In fact in the Vishnu Avatara of Narasimha; the DOORWAY is neither in nor out! Which is why Bhagwan selects that place to slay the Asura! Which is why while growing up our grandmothers used to tell us not to sit on the doorway! Even now we are told not to receive or give anything to anyone on the doorway! Either you get in or come out!
So though the term was coined in 1981 by Graham Priest and Richard Sylvan, the roots of the idea appear throughout history as above!
In fact in ancient Indian and Buddhist logic (specifically the Catuskoti) often allowed for four possibilities, including a statement being “both true and false”!
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!
Then again some points of view are true no matter who says them! Like Raghu Rai was a great photographer!
He will be missed…
Now subh ratri for those in this side of the world! Suprabhatam for those on the other side!
Dialetheism!!
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