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Author Barwise, Jon

Title The Liar : an Essay on Truth and Circularity
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
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Subject Liar paradox.
Liar paradox
Form Electronic book
Author Etchemendy, John
ISBN 9780198021759
0198021755
9786610524112
6610524114
0195363094
9780195363098
1280524111
9781280524110