 Interpreting the philosophers we have mentioned is a sensitive issue. Many commentators have suggested that the seemingly contradictory utterances of the philosophers in question are not really contradictory. There are a number of standard devices that may be employed to block a dialetheic interpretation. One is to question, in the case of non-English sources, whether the apparently contradictory translation is correct. Another is to claim that the contradictory utterance is to be taken as having some non-literal form of meaning, e.g., that it is a metaphor, or a way of pointing towards some higher, ineffable truth. Another is to claim that the contradictory assertion is ambiguous in some way, and that it is true on one disambiguation or respect, false in another.