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Theism and Dialetheism

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The divine attributes of omniscience and omnipotence have faced objections to their very consistency. Such objections rely on reasoning parallel to semantic paradoxes such as the Liar or to set-theoretic paradoxes like Russell's paradox. With the advent of paraconsistent logics, dialetheism—the view that some contradictions are true—became a major player in the search for a solution to such paradoxes. This paper explores whether dialetheism, armed with the tools of paraconsistent logics, has the resources to respond to the objections levelled against the divine attributes.

Keywords: dialetheism; omnipotence; omniscience; paraconsistency; paradox; theism

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: University of St Andrews,

Publication date: 03 July 2018

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