The Liar
An Essay on Truth and Circularity
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 distinct conceptions 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 is crucially flawed in limiting cases, the Austinian perspective h…
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Weitere Autoren: Etchemendy, John
- ISBN: 978-0-19-802175-9
- EAN: 9780198021759
- Produktnummer: 29340836
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'328 KB
- Abbildungen: 13 diagrams
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