Raise a spoon to Grandma, who always took all the hungry cousins to McDonald's for McNuggets and the Play Play Play Slide. Have something sweet in her honor. Come to McDonald's and treat yourself to the Grandma McFlurry today.

Bar-da-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa. They're participating in McDonald's for a limited time. What is true is not something that corresponds to some kind of reality, but something for which there is appropriate

verification or evidence or something like that. Sometimes this kind of notion of truth is said

to be epistemically loaded. Nothing is what you get when you fuse no things, when you put no

things together. Nothing is both something and nothing. There's a paradox concerning nothingness, because nothingness is something.

You can talk about it, you can think about it, you can wonder whether there is such a thing, you are now.

Graham Priest is a philosopher known for his work in logics and philosophy of math.

His book, Logic, A Very Short short introduction, is considered the quintessential

book, the philosopher's stone, if you will, of logic. If you've ever taken a logic

course in university, this is the beacon that's assigned. Today we talk about logic,

paradoxes. How can contradictions be true? Or more accurately, how can contradictions be the case?

Which is a different statement.

Furthermore, what is nothingness?

What does everything mean in a technical sense?

What is dialectical logic and paraconsistent logic?

Graham Priest holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. Professor

of Priest's contributions also extend to Eastern philosophy, where he examines non-classical

logics found in Buddhist thought, drawing parallels with Western logical traditions, rather than

the mere contrastive approach that most others take. This is a fantastic episode. I've been waiting to speak to Graham Priest for literally years.

My name is Kurt Jemungle, and I have this podcast here called Theories of Everything,

which is about exploring theories of everything, usually in the physics sense from my background in mathematical physics.

But more and more I've become interested in philosophy and the largest questions that we have,

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