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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450550903321

Autore

Barwise Jon

Titolo

The liar : an essay on truth and circularity / / Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

9786610524112

0-19-536309-4

1-280-52411-1

0-19-802175-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

165

Soggetti

Liar paradox

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 The Liar; 2 Sentences, Statements, and Propositions; 3 The Universe of Hypersets; 4 Modeling Russellian Propositions; 5 Truth of Russellian Propositions; 6 Consequences of the Russellian Account; 7 Sentences and Russellian Propositions; 8 Modeling Austinian Propositions; 9 Austinian Propositions and the World; 10 An Austinian Semantics; 11 Relating the Russellian and Austinian Accounts; 12 Negation and Denial; 13 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Postscript

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like ""the liar"". The authors base this solution on J.L.Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics, and compare two models of language, propositions and truth.