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dialetheist

dialetheist noun: a person who believes in or advocates dialetheism, the logical or metaphysical theory that two contradictory propositions can both be true.

Noun

dialetheist (plural dialetheists)

  1. A person who believes in or advocates dialetheism, the logical or metaphysical theory that two contradictory propositions can both be true.
    • Of course, dialetheists, who hold that some sentences are true with true negations, also provide a response that purports to resolve the paradoxes […]2014, Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot, Unity, Truth and the Liar: The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the […] , […]

Forms of dialetheist

pluraldialetheists

Origin of dialetheist

From dialetheism + -ist.

Questions about dialetheist

What does dialetheist mean?
Dialetheist means a person who believes in or advocates dialetheism, the logical or metaphysical theory that two contradictory propositions can both be true.
What part of speech is dialetheist?
Dialetheist is a noun.
What is the plural of dialetheist?
The plural of dialetheist is dialetheists.

Words near dialetheist in the dictionary

  1. dialetheia
  2. dialetheias
  3. dialetheic
  4. dialetheism
  5. dialetheisms
  6. dialetheist
  7. dialetheists
  8. dialethic
  9. dialethism
  10. dialgebra
  11. dialgebras

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