Plato's account of falsehood : a study of the Sophist / Paolo Crivelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crivelli, Paolo, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Sophist.

Plato.

Ontology.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xi, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this 'falsehood paradox', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe falsehoods (because to say or believe a falsehood is to say or believe something that is not, and is therefore not there to be said or believed). In this book Paolo Crivelli closely examines the whole dialogue and shows how Plato's brilliant solution to the paradox is radically different from those put forward by modern philosophers. He surveys and critically discusses the vast range of literature which has developed around the Sophist over the past fifty years, and provides original solutions to several problems that are so far unsolved. His book will be important for all who are interested in the Sophist and in ancient ontology and philosophy of language more generally"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The sophist defined; 2. Puzzles about not-being; 3. Puzzles about being; 4. The communion of kinds; 5. Negation and not-being; 6. Sentences, false sentences, and false beliefs; Appendix: the Sophist on true and false sentences: formal presentation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780521199131

0521199131

OCLC:

729345966

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