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Unity, Truth and the Liar : The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox by Stephen Read (auth.), Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Liar Paradox challenges logicians’ and semanticists’ theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and metalanguage. Yet this solution to the Liar presupposes that sentences have unique meaning. This assumption is non-controversial in formal languages, but an account of how “hidden meaning” is made explicit is necessary to any complete analysis of natural language. Since the Liar Paradox presents itself as a sentence uniting contradictory meanings, appreciating how they can be united in a single sentence may provide new insights into this and other paradoxes. This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution to the Liar Paradox which did not assume Uniqueness of Meaning. Stephen Read, author of the target paper, attempts to formally state a theory of truth that dates back to the 14th century logician Thomas Bradwardine; the theory offers a solution to the Liar Paradox in which the Liar sentence turns out to be false. The rest of the volume consists of papers discussing and/or challenging Read’s – and Bradwardine

Who reads Unity, Truth and the Liar : The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox?

Author

Stephen Read (auth.), Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402084676

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism