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Dialetheism is motivated by the desire to resolve semantic paradoxes like the Liar paradox.
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Is it true that Dialetheism is motivated by the desire to resolve semantic paradoxes like the Liar paradox?
Yes. Dialetheism is fundamentally motivated by the need to address and resolve semantic paradoxes, such as the Liar paradox, by allowing for true contradictions.
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The retrieved literature (such as papers 1 and 11) directly connects dialetheism and paraconsistent approaches to the study and attempted resolution of semantic paradoxes like the Liar paradox. None of the papers refute this motivation, even when critiquing how well paraconsistent systems handle such paradoxes.
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Semantic dialetheism is explicitly discussed as an approach motivated by the presence of true contradictions arising from the use of language, such as semantic paradoxes.
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Mares, E. D. (2004). Semantic Dialetheism. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265176.003.0017
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The paper discusses the Liar paradox as a central semantic puzzle that paraconsistent and dialetheist frameworks attempt to accommodate.
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Arenhart, J. B. B. & Melo, E. S. (2022). The Liar Paradox: Between Evidence and Truth. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.12775/llp.2022.005
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