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8 - Emptying

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2020

Catherine Pickstock
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University of Cambridge
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Following Graham Priest, I argue in this chapter that the dialetheic (or true-contradictory) violation of this law with respect to recursion and infinity is called for by logical consistency itself. However, I suggest that the resulting nihilistic hypostasisation of emptiness may arbitrarily construe the dialetheic as a dogmatic gesture at the margins of the Principle of Non-Contradiction, rather than, as for Nicholas of Cusa, an apophatic gesture which may indicate an unknown plenitude rather than an enthralling absence.

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Aspects of Truth
A New Religious Metaphysics
, pp. 231 - 240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Emptying
  • Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Aspects of Truth
  • Online publication: 06 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885614.009
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  • Emptying
  • Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Aspects of Truth
  • Online publication: 06 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885614.009
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  • Emptying
  • Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Aspects of Truth
  • Online publication: 06 October 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885614.009
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