{"podcast":{"title":"Singularity.FM","slug":"singularity-fm-1654370","podcast_index_feed_id":1654370,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:127932303/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://www.singularityweblog.com/","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000269783121-khvz44-original.jpg","author":"Nikola Danaylov","episode_count":336,"summary":"Singularity.FM is the first and best known singul…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T08:20:09.454300+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/singularity-fm-1654370"},"episode":{"title":"Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough","slug":"graham-priest-on-dialetheism-true-contradictions-the-liar-paradox-why-classical-logic-isn-t-enough","published_at":"2026-02-12T18:01:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/singularity-fm-1654370/graham-priest-on-dialetheism-true-contradictions-the-liar-paradox-why-classical-logic-isn-t-enough","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/singularity-fm-1654370","url":"https://soundcloud.com/singularity1on1/graham-priest","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2265383864-singularity1on1-graham-priest.mp3","summary":"What if some contradictions are not mistakes — but truths? For over 2,500 years, Western philosophy has treated contradiction as catastrophic. From Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction to modern formal systems, logic has operated under one sacred assumption: a statement cannot be both true and false. But what if that assumption is wrong? In this deep, wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Graham Priest, one of the world’s most influential philosophers of logic and the leading defender of dialetheism — the view that some contradictions are true. We explore: What dialetheism really means Why the liar paradox still unsettles logicians How paraconsistent logic blocks “explosion” (the idea that from a contradiction, anything follows) Whether classical logic is incomplete rather than universal What Buddhist philosophy and Nāgārjuna understood about contradiction And whether AI systems may eventually require non-classical logics to model human reasoning Far from being an abstract puzzle, the liar paradox exposes deep tensions in how we understand truth, self-reference, and rationality itself. If contradictions can be true, then the foundations of logic, mathematics, metaphysics — and even artificial intelligence — may need rethinking. We also move beyond formal systems into lived philosophy: Graham’s journey from Christianity to atheism His engagement with Buddhist thought The limits of decision theory The discipline of karate as a philosophical practice This is not merely a discussion of symbolic logic. It is a conversation about the limits of reason. About what happens when our most trusted intellectual tools reach their breaking point. And about whether embracing contradiction might expand — rather than destroy — rational inquiry. If your background is in technology,…","meta_description":"What if some contradictions are not mistakes — but truths? For over 2,500 years, Western philosophy has treated contradiction as catastrophic. From Aristo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":10187,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/singularity-fm-1654370/episodes/graham-priest-on-dialetheism-true-contradictions-the-liar-paradox-why-classical-logic-isn-t-enough/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/singularity-fm-1654370/graham-priest-on-dialetheism-true-contradictions-the-liar-paradox-why-classical-logic-isn-t-enough.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}