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Adam BRAUS ABSTRACT: Dialetheists claim that some statements are dialetheia or true contradictions and are both true and false. This challenges the classical understanding of the law of non-contradiction (LNC). Dialetheists claim there are at least three types of dialetheia: contradictory concepts, sorites paradoxes, and self-referential paradoxes. Attempts to argue that these contradictions are merely semantic have not succeeded entirely, …

Peter BAUMANN ABSTRACT: That knowledge is factive, that is, that knowledge that p requires that p, has for a long time typically been treated as a truism. Recently, however, some authors have raised doubts about and arguments against this claim. In a recent paper in this journal, Michael Shaffer presents new arguments against the denial of the factivity of knowledge. …