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The Knowability Paradox (Paperback)
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The Knowability Paradox (Paperback)
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The paradox of knowability, derived from a proof by Frederic Fitch
in 1963, is one of the deepest paradoxes concerning the nature of
truth. Jonathan Kvanvig argues that the depth of the paradox has
not been adequately appreciated. It has long been known that the
paradox threatens antirealist conceptions of truth according to
which truth is epistemic. If truth is epistemic, what better way to
express that idea than to maintain that all truths are knowable? In
the face of the paradox, however, such a characterization threatens
to undermine antirealism. If Fitch's proof is valid, then one can
be an antirealist of this sort only by endorsing the conclusion of
the proof that all truths are known.
Realists about truth have tended to stand on the sidelines and
cheer the difficulties faced by their opponents from Fitch's proof.
Kvanvig argues that this perspective is wholly unwarranted. He
argues that there are two problems raised by the paradox, one that
threatens antirealism about truth and the other that threatens
everybody's view about truth, realist or antirealist. The problem
facing antirealism has had a number of proposed solutions over the
past 40 years, and the results have not been especially promising
with regard to the first problem. The second problem has not even
been acknowledged, however, and the proposals regarding the first
problem are irrelevant to the second problem.
This book thus provides a thorough investigation of the literature
on the paradox, and also proposes a solution to the deeper of the
two problems raised by Fitch's proof. It provides a complete
picture of the paradoxicality that results from Fitch's proof, and
presents a solution to the paradox thatclaims to address both
problems raised by the original proof.
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