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    It is not the case that Necessarily false propositions are arguably not possible objects of belief.

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    • 1.Frege and Russell documented cases where logically contradictory propositions were sincerely believed before their contradiction was discovered.
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    • 2.If necessarily false propositions were not believable, mathematical errors and paradoxes could never constitute genuine cognitive states.
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    • 3.The historical belief in naive set comprehension (pre-Russell) shows agents can hold contradictory beliefs without suspending propositional assent.
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    • 1.Priest's dialetheism holds that some contradictions are true, entailing that necessarily false propositions are coherent objects of rational belief.
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    • 2.If dialetheism is even a live philosophical option, the claim that necessarily false propositions are 'arguably' unbelievable loses its presumptive force.
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    • 1.We have a charitable tendency to re-interpret blatant contradictions in some innocuous way.
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    • 2.When our hermeneutical charity is thwarted, we suspend belief not in a proposition but in a putative proposition's being a proposition, or in a verbal formula's expressing a proposition.
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