Paradoxes: their roots, range, and resolution
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| adam_text | Titel: Paradoxes
Autor: Rescher, Nicholas
Jahr: 2001
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents vii
Preface xiii
Index of Paradoxes Discussed xv
Summary of Symbols, Technical Terms,
and Principles xix
1 Aporetics 3
2 Paradox Solution via Retention Prioritization 25
3 Plausibility as a Guide to Prioritization 43
4 Levels of Paradoxicality 57
5 Paradoxes of Vagueness 77
6 Paradoxes of Ambiguity and Equivocation
(Insufficient Distinctions) 91
7 Philosophical Paradoxes 117
8 Paradoxes of Inappropriate Presupposition
(Improper Totalities in Particular) 137
9 Mathematical Paradoxes 159
10 Semantical Paradoxes that Involve Conflicting
Claims regarding Truth 193
11 Inductive Paradoxes (Conflicts of Probability
and Evidence) 219
12 Paradoxes of Hypothetical Reasoning
(The Problem of Assumptions that Conflict
with Accepted Beliefs) 233
13 Paradoxes of Choice and Decision (Conflicting
Reasons for Action) 255
Bibliography 281
Index 289
Detailed Contents
Preface xiii
Index of Paradoxes Discussed xv
Summary of Symbols, Technical Terms, and
Principles xix
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 1 1
1 Aporetics 3
1.1 Apories and Paradoxes 3
1.2 Paradoxes Root in Overcommitment 9
1.3 Plausibility 15
1.4 Plausibility and Presumption 17
1.5 The Acceptability of Contentions 20
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 2 23
2 Paradox Solution via Retention Prioritization 25
2.1 Addressing Paradox Resolution Via Priority
Rating 25
2.2 Procedural Considerations 32
2.3 Disjunctive Resolutions: Conflicting Report
Paradoxes 34
2.4 Compound Paradoxes 37
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 3 41
3 Plausibility as a Guide to Prioritization 43
3.1 Theses of Lowest Priority: The Meaningless
and the False 43
3.2 Comparative Plausibility and Prioritization 46
3.3 Issues of Plausibility: Routes to Plausibility
Assessment and Priority Determination 47
3.4 Against Semantic Absolutism 51
IX
x Detailed Contents
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 4 55
4 Levels of Paradoxicality 57
4.1 Four Modes of Paradox Solution 57
4.2 Dissolvable Paradoxes 59
4.3 Decisively Resolvable Paradoxes 61
4.4 Indecisively Resolvable Paradoxes 65
4.5 The Classification of Paradoxes 70
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 5 75
5 Paradoxes of Vagueness 77
5.1 The Paradox of the Heap 77
5.2 The Color-Continuum Paradox 83
5.3 Sir John Cutler s Stockings 84
5.4 The Hermeneutic Circle 87
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 6 89
6 Paradoxes of Ambiguity and Equivocation
(Insufficient Distinctions) 91
6.1 Equivocation as a Road to Paradox 91
6.2 Zeno s Paradox of Differentiation 94
6.3 Zeno s Space Paradoxes 96
6.4 Zeno s Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox 98
6.5 Zeno s Paradox of the Arrow 100
6.6 Zeno s Paradox of the Moving Bodies 101
6.7 The Relation Riddles of Eubulides 102
6.8 Further Riddles 104
6.9 The Master Argument of Diodorus
(Kyrieuon) 107
6.10 Sameness Amidst Change: Mind-Body
Equivocation 108
6.11 Frege s Morning Star Paradox 110
6.12 The Categorization Paradox 111
6.13 The Surprise Examination (or Execution) 112
Detailed Contents xi
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 7 115
7 Philosophical Paradoxes 117
7.1 Philosophical Paradoxes 117
7.2 Philosophical Apories Tie Issues Together 123
7.3 Philosophical Plausibility 125
7.4 The Role of Distinctions 126
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 8 135
8 Paradoxes of Inappropriate Presupposition
(Improper Totalities in Particular) 137
8.1 Unwarranted Presuppositions 137
8.2 Paradoxical Questions 141
8.3 Negatively Totalitarian Self-Involvement:
The Barber Paradox 143
8.4 Illicit Totalization Paradoxes 145
8.5 Immanuel Kant s Antinomies 147
8.6 Predictive Paradoxes 151
8.7 Summary 154
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 9 157
9 Mathematical Paradoxes 159
9.1 Cantor s Paradox and the Viable Introduction
Requirement (VIR) 159
9.2 The Successful Identification Principle (SIP) 164
9.3 Pseudo-Objects 167
9.4 Russell s Paradox 170
9.5 Paradoxes Related to Russell s: Curry s and
Grelling s 173
9.6 Berry s Paradox and its Ramifications 176
9.7 Richard s Paradox 181
9.8 Burali-Forti s Paradox 184
9.9 Addressing the Mathematical Paradoxes 184
9.10 The Efficacy of the Successful Identification
Requirement (SIR) 188
Xll
Detailed Contents
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 10 l91
10 Semantical Paradoxes that Involve
Conflicting Claims regarding Truth 193
10.1 Self-Falsification 193
10.2 The Liar and His Cousins 199
10.3 Problems of Self-Reference 203
10.4 Paradoxes of Truth-Claim Dissonance 207
10.5 The Preface Paradox 213
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 11 217
11 Inductive Paradoxes (Conflicts of
Probability and Evidence) 219
11.1 Evidential Indecisiveness 219
11.2 Self-Deception 221
11.3 The Lottery Paradox 222
11.4 Hempel s Paradox of the Ravens 224
11.5 Goodman s Grue/Bleen Paradox 227
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 12 231
12 Paradoxes of Hypothetical Reasoning
(The Problem of Assumptions that Conflict
with Accepted Beliefs) 233
12.1 Hypotheses and Burley s Principle 233
12.2 Counterfactual Conditionals 238
12.3 Further Examples 242
12.4 The Crucial Difference Between Factual and
Hypothetical Contexts 244
12.5 Reductio-ad-Absurdum Reasoning 245
12.6 Thompson s Lamp as an Illustration of
Reductio Reasoning 247
12.7 Per-Impossibile Reasoning 249
Detailed Contents xiii
Paradoxes Discussed in Chapter 13 253
13 Paradoxes of Choice and Decision
(Conflicting Reasons for Action) 255
13.1 A Sample Paradox of Decision 255
13.2 The Prisoner s Dilemma 260
13.3 Newcomb s Perverse Predictor Paradox 264
13.4 Allais s Paradox and the St. Petersburg Paradox 267
13.5 The Dr. Psycho Paradox 269
13.6 Retrospect: The Pragmatic Dimension 275
Bibliography 281
Index 289
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