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245 1 0 _aUnity, Truth and the Liar
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox /
_cedited by Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2008.
300 _aXXIV, 338 p.
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490 1 _aLogic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science ;
_v8
505 0 _aDisputatio -- 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.
520 _aThe 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 assumption is non-controversial in formal languages, but an account of how “hidden meaning” is made explicit is necessary to any complete analysis of natural language. Since the Liar Paradox presents itself as a sentence uniting contradictory meanings, appreciating how they can be united in a single sentence may provide new insights into this and other paradoxes. This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution to the Liar Paradox which did not assume Uniqueness of Meaning. Stephen Read, author of the target paper, attempts to formally state a theory of truth that dates back to the 14th century logician Thomas Bradwardine; the theory offers a solution to the Liar Paradox in which the Liar sentence turns out to be false. The rest of the volume consists of papers discussing and/or challenging Read’s – and Bradwardine’s -- views one the one hand, and papers addressing the doctrinal and historical background of medieval theories of truth on the other hand. It also includes a critical edition of Heytesbury’s treatise on insolubles, closely related to Bradwardine’s view. Including formal, philosophical and historical discussions, this volume intends to renew the debate about paradoxes and theory of truth, and to show that the interest of earlier medieval work is not merely historical but, on the contrary, still relevant for modern, formal semantic theory. It is of interest for both professional philosophers and advanced students of philosophy.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
650 0 _aLogic.
650 0 _aMedieval philosophy.
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
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650 0 _aSemantics.
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650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Language.
650 2 4 _aSemantics.
650 2 4 _aMedieval Philosophy.
700 1 _aRahman, Shahid.
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700 1 _aTulenheimo, Tero.
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700 1 _aGenot, Emmanuel.
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