Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a pluralistic proposition theory of truth carriers with sentences as secondary truth carriers is assumed. The background and the reason for writing this essay is that many people deny that they understand sentences that are contradictory. They deny to understand sentences such as: “Emil is sitting in his favorite char and Emil is not sitting in his favorite chair.” Or the contracted version: “Emil both is and is not sitting in his favorite chair.” They claim that:
Are contradictions meaningful?
Are contradictions meaningful?
Are contradictions meaningful?
Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a pluralistic proposition theory of truth carriers with sentences as secondary truth carriers is assumed. The background and the reason for writing this essay is that many people deny that they understand sentences that are contradictory. They deny to understand sentences such as: “Emil is sitting in his favorite char and Emil is not sitting in his favorite chair.” Or the contracted version: “Emil both is and is not sitting in his favorite chair.” They claim that: