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On What Ontology is and Not-is

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In this paper I investigate the relation between physics and metaphysics in Plato’s participation theory. I show that the logic shoring up Plato’s metaphysics in paraconsistent, as had been suggested already by Graham Priest. The transformation of the paradoxical One-and-Many of the pre-Socratics into a paraconsistent Great-and-Small bridges the abyss between archaic rationality and the world of classical logic based ultimately on the principle of contradiction.

Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.

J. Jaynes, Origin of Consciousness

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Verelst, K. On What Ontology is and Not-is. Found Sci 13, 347–370 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-008-9130-2

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