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Believing the Self-Contradictory
American Philosophical Quarterly
  • John N. WILLIAMS, Singapore Management University
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Journal Article
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Publication Date
7-1982
Abstract

Clearly, if a man holds a self-contradictory belief, then his belief cannot be rational, for there can be no set of evidence sufficient to justify it. This is most apparent when the self contradictory belief is a belief in a conjunction, (e.g., a belief that p & ~p), rather than when it is a non-conjunctive self-contradictory belief, e.g. a belief that red is not a color.

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University of Pittsburgh
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/20013967
Citation Information
John N. WILLIAMS. "Believing the Self-Contradictory" American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 19 Iss. 3 (1982) p. 279 - 286 ISSN: 0003-0481
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_williams/2/