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In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. Fitch published this and a generalization of the result in 1963. Ever since, philosophers have been attempting to understand the significance and address the counter-intuitiveness of this, the so-called paradox of knowability. This collection assembles Church's referee reports, F
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- Author
- Joe Salerno
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191608681
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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