
Plato's Account of Falsehood
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Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this ''falsehood paradox'', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe falsehoods (because to say or believe a falsehood is to say or believe something that is not, and is therefore not there to be said or believed). In this book Paolo Crivelli closely examines the whole dia...
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Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this ''falsehood paradox'', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe falsehoods (because to say or believe a falsehood is to say or believe something that is not, and is therefore not there to be said or believed). In this book Paolo Crivelli closely examines the whole dia...
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