Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Dr. Jc Beall, professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, explains "glut theory," the view that some contradictory statements can both be true - or, equivalently, that true theories can be inconsistent.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:25 What is dialetheism?
00:15:12 Languages vs. meta-languages
00:23:47 Examples of true contradictions
00:25:02 #1 - The liar paradox
00:31:23 #2 - Contradictions in the law
00:40:11 #3 - Paradoxes of motion
00:45:00 Not every contradiction is true
00:52:40 Why should glut theorists care about consistency?
01:07:13 My argument against dialetheism
01:16:39 Contradictions within Christianity
01:23:30 Can both atheism and Christianity be true?
01:26:34 Is glut theory itself both true and false?
01:32:07 Glut theory and Eastern religions
01:39:49 Things logicians wish everyone would know
01:42:44 Godel's incompleteness theorems