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The Knowability Paradox (Hardcover, New)
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The Knowability Paradox (Hardcover, New)
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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 that claims to address both problems raised by the original
proof.
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