Jon Barwise
The Liar
An Essay on Truth and Circularity
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Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors model two distinctconceptions of propositions: one based on the standard notion used by Bertrand Russell, among others, and the other based on J.L. Austin's work on truth. Comparing these two accounts, the authors show that while the Russellian conception of the relation between sentences, propositions, and truth iscrucially flawed in limiting cases, the Austinian perspective has…
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Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors model two distinctconceptions of propositions: one based on the standard notion used by Bertrand Russell, among others, and the other based on J.L. Austin's work on truth. Comparing these two accounts, the authors show that while the Russellian conception of the relation between sentences, propositions, and truth iscrucially flawed in limiting cases, the Austinian perspective has fruitful applications to the analysis of semantic paradox. In the course of their study of a language admitting circular reference and containing its own truth predicate, Barwise and Etchemendy also develop a wide range ofmodel-theoretic techniques--based on a new set-theoretic tool, Peter Aczel's theory of hypersets--that open up new avenues in logical and formal semantics.
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Weitere Autoren: Etchemendy, John
- ISBN: 978-0-19-505944-1
- EAN: 9780195059441
- Produktnummer: 22683574
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 290 g
- Abbildungen: figures and tables
- Gewicht: 290
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