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dc.contributor.author	Jones, Russell Edward
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-10T19:53:15Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	Jones, Russell Edward. 2010. Truth and contradiction in Aristotle's De Interpretatione 6-9. Phronesis 55(1): 26-67.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0031-8868	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1568-5284	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10021578
dc.description.abstract	In De Interpretatione 6-9, Aristotle considers three logical principles: the principle of bivalence, the law of excluded middle, and the rule of contradictory pairs (according to which of any contradictory pair of statements, exactly one is true and the other false). Surprisingly, Aristotle accepts none of these without qualification. I offer a coherent interpretation of these chapters as a whole, while focusing special attention on two sorts of statements that are of particular interest to Aristotle: universal statements not made universally and future particular statements. With respect to the former, I argue that Aristotle takes them to be indeterminate and so to violate the rule of contradictory pairs. With respect to the latter, the subject of the much discussed ninth chapter, I argue that the rule of contradictory pairs, and not the principle of bivalence, is the focus of Aristotle’s refutation. Nevertheless, Aristotle rejects bivalence for future particular statements.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Philosophy	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Brill Academic Publishers	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1163/003188610X12589452898804	en_US
dash.license	OAP
dc.subject	truth	en_US
dc.subject	falsehood	en_US
dc.subject	contradiciton	en_US
dc.subject	bivalence	en_US
dc.subject	De Interpretatione	en_US
dc.title	Truth and Contradiction in Aristotle's De Interpretatione 6-9	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Author's Original	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Phronesis	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Jones, Russell Edward
dc.date.available	2012-12-10T19:53:15Z

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