Two Plus One Equals One: A Response to Brook Ziporyn

Authors

Yasuo Deguchi
Jay L. Garfield, Smith CollegeFollow
Graham Priest

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2013

Publication Title

Philosophy East and West

Abstract

Brook Ziporyn argues that our dialetheism is too tame, at least with respect to Tiantai Buddhism. He argues first that from the standpoint of Tiantai no assertions are meant to be true at all, that all use of language is nothing but upāya. He then argues that in Tiantai not only some but all contradictions are true. He grounds both of these claims on the further claim that in Tiantai the relation between the two truths is identity. We reject all of these claims, arguing that the relation of round fusion between the two truths is not that of identity, that some claims, even in Tiantai, are meant to be truth-evaluable, and that even in Tiantai there are some claims that are simply false, that not all contradictions are true.

Volume

63

Issue

3

First Page

353

Last Page

358

DOI

10.1353/pew.2013.0043

ISSN

00318221

Rights

© 2013 by University of Hawai'i Press.

Comments

Archived as published.

Recommended Citation

Deguchi, Yasuo; Garfield, Jay L.; and Priest, Graham, "Two Plus One Equals One: A Response to Brook Ziporyn" (2013). Philosophy: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/phi_facpubs/35