Liar : An Essay on Truth and Circularity by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy (1987, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10019505072X
ISBN-139780195050721
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038263652
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLiar : an Essay on Truth and Circularity
Publication Year1987
SubjectLogic
FeaturesReprint
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy
AuthorJon Barwise, John Etchemendy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.3 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN86-031260
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal165
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisBringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Barwise and Etchemendy model and compare Russellian and Austinian conceptions of propositions, and develop a range of model-theoretic techniques--based on Aczel's work--that open up new avenues in logical and formal semantics., Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors model two distinct conceptions of propositions: one based on the standard notion used by Bertrand Russell, among others, and the other based on J.L. Austin's work on truth. Comparing these two accounts, the authors show that while the Russellian conception of the relation between sentences, propositions, and truth is crucially flawed in limiting cases, the Austinian perspective has fruitful applications to the analysis of semantic paradox. In the course of their study of a language admitting circular reference and containing its own truth predicate, Barwise and Etchemendy also develop a wide range of model-theoretic techniques--based on a new set-theoretic tool, Peter Aczel's theory of hypersets--that open up new avenues in logical and formal semantics.
LC Classification NumberBC199.P2B37 1987
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