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Aristotle’s imaginary interlocutor, Antiphasis, is denying the law of noncontradiction. But a closer look at what Aristotle says about this shows that he is doing something even more extreme than that: he is insisting that the law of non-contradiction fails quite generally. And this general failure Aristotle associates with Protagoreans.
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Dancy, R.M. (1975). On Antiphasis’ Character and Upbringing. In: Sense and Contradiction: A Study in Aristotle. Synthese Historical Library, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9770-3_3
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