Contextual approaches to truth and the strengthened liar paradox / Christine Schurz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Problem of Truth and the Liar Paradox in Formal Languages; 2.1 The Formal Language; 2.2 The Undefinability of Truth; 2.3 The Conditions of the Liar Paradox; 3 Theories of Partial Truth; 3.1 Classical Approaches to Truth; 3.2 Iterative Approaches to Truth and Groundedness; 4 The Contextual Approach to the Strengthened Liar Problem; 4.1 The Strengthened Liar Problem; 4.2 The Contextual Approach; 4.3 Three Instances of CR1; 5 Contextual Approaches by Iterating Partial Truth Predicates; 5.1 A Hierarchy of Models According to CR1.

5.2 A Hierarchy of Models According to CR25.3 Extending the Hierarchies to Transfinite Ordinal Numbers; 5.4 Are Contextual Accounts Unnatural?; 6 Summary and Conclusions; Subject Index; Bibliography.

The problem of truth and the liar paradox is one of the most extensive problems of philosophy. The liar paradox can be avoided by assuming a so-called theory of partial truth instead of a classical theory of truth. Theories of partial truth, however, cannot solve the so-called strengthened liar paradox, which is the problem that many semantic statements about the so-called strengthened liar cannot be true in a theory of partial truth. If such semantic statements were true in the theory, another paradox would emerge. To proponents of contextual accounts, which assume that the concept of truth i.

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