07-26-2026, 01:03 AM
Beyond the Limits of Thought
BY Graham Priest
Summary
In Beyond the Limits of Thought, philosopher Graham Priest investigates the conceptual boundaries of human reasoning, language, and metaphysics, arguing that attempting to define or step beyond these limits inevitably generates true contradictions (dialetheism).
Tracing this pattern across Western philosophical history, Priest explores how pre-Kantian thinkers, Kant, Hegel, and Berkeley grappled with antinomies and the bounds of expressibility, before extending his analysis to modern figures like Wittgenstein and Derrida.
By providing a unified structural account of self-referential paradoxes, the book contends that such contradictions are not mere logical failures or linguistic flaws, but genuine, veridical features that naturally occur at the ultimate edges of thought.
BOOK
BY Graham Priest
Summary
In Beyond the Limits of Thought, philosopher Graham Priest investigates the conceptual boundaries of human reasoning, language, and metaphysics, arguing that attempting to define or step beyond these limits inevitably generates true contradictions (dialetheism).
Tracing this pattern across Western philosophical history, Priest explores how pre-Kantian thinkers, Kant, Hegel, and Berkeley grappled with antinomies and the bounds of expressibility, before extending his analysis to modern figures like Wittgenstein and Derrida.
By providing a unified structural account of self-referential paradoxes, the book contends that such contradictions are not mere logical failures or linguistic flaws, but genuine, veridical features that naturally occur at the ultimate edges of thought.
BOOK
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