 A variant on the anti-dialetheic argument from negation comes from a Quinean conception of logical vocabulary. It goes as follows. Even granting that there is an operator, say, \(*\), which behaves as dialetheists claim (namely, such that in particular in some cases \(A\) is true together with \(*A)\), it is still perfectly possible to define a negation with all the properties of classical negation; in particular, the property of being explosive. And since classical negation is the standard operator in logic, it is misleading to translate anything non-classical as ‘not’: such a translation risks simply calling ‘negation’ something different. A change in logical vocabulary is a “change of subject”, as the Quinean slogan goes. A version of this objection to dialetheism is due to Slater (1995); see also Restall 1993.