The Liar - An Essay on Truth and Circularity (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1989
First published:	April 1989
Authors:	Jon Barwise (Professor of Philosophy) • John Etchemendy (Assistant Professor of Philosophy)
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	206
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505944-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-505944-1
Barcode:	9780195059441

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