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