dialetheia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A statement that is both true and false; a true contradiction.

Word forms

dialetheia dialetheias

Etymology

Coined by Graham Priest and Richard Routley, from di- + Ancient Greek ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia, “truth”), in 1981.

Related words

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