The MIT Press: 1991. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Inscription on the first free end paper and notes from a previous reader on the rear free end paper. Unclipped jacket is faded and edge worn. Book is very good, jacket on the lower end of very good.

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Title: The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262071347
ISBN 13: 9780262071345
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete.

The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Godel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case. "

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Patrick Grim is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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