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Truth and Paradox - Solving the Riddles (Hardcover)
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Truth and Paradox - Solving the Riddles (Hardcover)
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Truth and Paradox offers a comprehensive account of truth values
and the norms governing claims about truth, based on a new approach
to logic and semantics. Since the seminal work of Tarski in the
mid-twentieth century, the Liar paradox and other related paradoxes
have stood in the way of a precise philosophical account of truth.
Tim Maudlin draws on analogies from mathematical physics to
explicate the origin of classical truth-value gaps, and to provide
an account of truth that avoids any hierarchy of languages or of
truth predicates. He also closely investigates our reasoning about
truth, including apparently unobjectionable reasoning about the
paradoxical sentences. The fallacies in that reasoning are located
not in any inferences concerning truth, but in the foundations of
standard logic. Blocking the paradoxical arguments requires
emendation of classical logic, and the requisite emendations call
into question the existence of any a priori logical truths. Maudlin
also includes a discussion of facts and factuality, most
particularly the question of whether there are any facts about
truth. All philosophers interested in logic and language will find
this a stimulating read.
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