The liar: an essay on truth and circularity
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Main Author: Barwise, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1987
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Item Description:This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like "the liar". The authors base this solution on J.L. Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics, and compare two models of language, propositions and truth
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180) and index
1 The Liar; 2 Sentences, Statements, and Propositions; 3 The Universe of Hypersets; 4 Modeling Russellian Propositions; 5 Truth of Russellian Propositions; 6 Consequences of the Russellian Account; 7 Sentences and Russellian Propositions; 8 Modeling Austinian Propositions; 9 Austinian Propositions and the World; 10 An Austinian Semantics; 11 Relating the Russellian and Austinian Accounts; 12 Negation and Denial; 13 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Postscript
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 185 pages)
ISBN:0198021755
1280524111
9780198021759
9781280524110

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