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Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations
that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the
circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise
conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling
paradoxes. Currently, semantic theory employs generalized
quantifiers as the extensions of noun phrases in explanations of
the composition of truth-values. Generalized quantifiers are direct
descendants of the second-level functions to truth-values that
Gottlob Frege considered to be the referents of his unrestricted
quantifiers. During the past fifty years, Frege's original
quantifier referents have been revised and generalized with the
result that now every noun phrase, of any type, has a generalized
quantifier as its extension. This evolution of noun-phrase
extensions from Frege's referents has retained two of the original
theory's flaws. First, generalized quantifiers inherit a
troublesome intrusion of predicate extensions. Second, the senses
of names and deictic terms are still not identified, with the
result that their extensions are not sharply distinguished from
their referents. Truth Be Told frees semantic theory from these
Fregean flaws. Its theory of sense, quantity, and extension yields
an intuitive composition of sentence truth-values and secures an
accurate understanding of truth. Its final chapter applies the
theory in a diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes that is
immune to the notorious revenge paradoxes. Truth Be Told can be
used for courses in philosophy of language, semantics, and the
foundations of logic.
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