@inproceedings{6f047afbcc5d4511baafaa66a56eb7a1,
title = "Truth, trivialism, and perceptual illusions",
abstract = "Dialetheism is the view according to which some contradictions (i.e., statements of the form, A and not-A) are true. In this paper, I discuss three strategies to block dialetheism: (i) Contradictions cannot be true because some theories of truth preclude them from emerging. (ii) Contradictions cannot be true because we cannot see what it is like to perceive them. Although that does not undercut the possibility that there are true contradictions that we cannot perceive, it makes their introduction a genuine cost. (iii) Contradictions cannot be true because if they were, we would end up sliding down into believing that everything is true (trivialism). Even if the dialetheist is not committed to that slippery slope, it is crucial that the dialetheist establishes that trivialism is unacceptable; but it is not clear how that could be done successfully. Graham Priest has considered these strategies (in his Doubt Truth to be a Liar), but I argue that none of his responses successfully block them.",
keywords = "Dialetheism, Graham priest, Perceptual illusions, Trivialism, Truth",
author = "Ot{\'a}vio Bueno",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer India 2015.; 5th World Congress on Paraconsistency, WCP 2014 ; Conference date: 13-02-2014 Through 17-02-2014",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-81-322-2719-9_21",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9788132227175",
series = "Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
pages = "465--476",
editor = "Soma Dutta and Jean-Yves Beziau and Mihir Chakraborty",
booktitle = "New Directions in Paraconsistent Logic - 5th WCP",
}