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Faultless disagreement

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A faultless disagreement is a disagreement when Party A states that P is true, while Party P states that non-P is true, and both parties are not at fault. Disagreements of this kind may arise in areas of evaluative discourse, such as aesthetics, justification of beliefs or moral values, etc. A representative example is John says Mary prettier that Anne, while Bob claims vice versa. Furthermore, in the case of a faultless disagreement, it is possible that if any party gives up their claim, there will be no improvement in the position of any of them.

Within the framework of formal logic it is impossible that both P and not-P are true, and it was attempted to justify faultless disagreements within the framework of relativism of the Truth, Max Kölbel and Sven Rosenkranz present arguments to the point that genuine faultless disagreements are impossible

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Faultless disagreement Wikipedia