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Barwise, Jon und John Etchemendy:
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Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1987
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- Title
- The Liar - An Essay on Truth and Circularity
- Author
- Barwise, Jon und John Etchemendy:
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Gut
- Binding
- 22 x 14,5 cm
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 019505072X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195050721
- Edition
- 1. Auflage,.
- Item weight
- 408 grams
- Seller catalogs
- Modernes Antiquariat
Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors model two distinct conceptions of propositions: one based on the standard notion used by Bertrand Russell, among others, and the other based on J.L. Austin's work on truth. Comparing these two accounts, the authors show that while the Russellian conception of the relation between sentences, propositions, and truth is crucially flawed in limiting cases, the Austinian perspective has fruitful applications to the analysis of semantic paradox. In the course of their study of a language admitting circular reference and containing its own truth predicate, Barwise and Etchemendy also develop a wide range of model-theoretic techniques--based on a new set-theoretic tool, Peter Aczel's theory of hypersets--that open up new avenues in logical and formal semantics.
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About the Author
Jon Barwise is at Indiana University. John Etchemendy is at Stanford University.
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