dialetheist

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English

Etymology

From dialetheism +‎ -ist.

Noun

dialetheist (plural dialetheists)

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