Unity, Truth and the Liar The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rahman, Shahid (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tulenheimo, Tero (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Genot, Emmanuel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science ; 8
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Logic.; Medieval philosophy.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Semantics.; Philosophy of Language.; Medieval Philosophy.

The Liar Paradox challenges logicians’ and semanticists’ theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and metalanguage. Yet this solution to the Liar presupposes that sentences have unique meaning. This assum...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Disputatio
• The Truth Schema and the Liar
• Read and Indirect Revenge
• Tarski's Hidden Theory of Meaning: Sentences Say Exactly One Thing
• Doubting Thomas: From Bradwardine Back to Anon
• Logic Without Truth
• Scheming and Lying
• Comments on Stephen Read's “The Truth-Schema and the Liar”
• Models for Liars in Bradwardine's Theory of Truth
• On a New Account of the Liar
• The Liar Cannot Be Solved
• Out of the Liar Tangle
• Read about T-Scheme
• Further Thoughts on Tarski's T-scheme and the Liar
• Historical Background: Restrictionism versus the Manifold Theory of Meaning
• Restrictionism: A Medieval Approach Revisited
• William Heytesbury and the Treatment of Insolubilia in Fourteenth-Century England Followed by a Critical Edition of Three Anonymous Treatises De Insolubilibus Inspired by Heytesbury.