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Disagreement for Dialetheists.

Authors :
Bex-Priestley, Graham
Shemmer, Yonatan
Source :
Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Mar2024, Vol. 102 Issue 1, p192-205, 14p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Dialetheists believe some sentences are both true and false. Objectors have argued that this makes it unclear how people can disagree with each other because, given the dialetheist's commitments, if I make a claim and you tell me my claim is false, we might both be correct. Graham Priest (2006a) thinks that people disagree by rejecting or denying what is said rather than ascribing falsehood to it. We build on the work of Julien Murzi and Massimiliano Carrara (2015) and show that Priest's approach cannot succeed: given the same dialetheist's commitments you may be correct to reject a claim that I correctly believe. We argue further that any attempt to solve the problem by identifying a new attitude of disagreement will also fail. The culprit, we claim, is the attempt to find a pair of attitudes that satisfy 'exclusivity'—that is, attitudes such that both cannot be simultaneously correct. Instead of identifying disagreement by the kinds of attitudes involved, we propose dialetheists focus on the normative landscape and identify it in part by whether parties have reasons to change their attitudes. We offer our own normative theory of disagreement to help dialetheists with this challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00048402
Volume :
102
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
176495394
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2023.2193586