The liar : an essay on truth and circularity / Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy.

By:

Barwise, Jon

Contributor(s):

Etchemendy, John, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 185 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780198021759
0198021755
1280524111
9781280524110
019505072X
9780195050721

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Liar.DDC classification:

165 22

LOC classification:

BC199.P2 B37 1987eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.