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Reflections on the liar / edited by Bradley Armour-Garb.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liar paradox.
- Paradox.
- Semantics (Philosophy).
- Logic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 383 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- There are a number of people who do great work in philosophy who have said very little about the liar paradox. The purpose of this volume is to afford those philosophers the opportunity to address what might be described as reflections on the liar.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction; 2. From No People to No Languages: A Nihilistic Response to the Liar Family of Semantic Paradoxes; 3. Thinking about the Liar, Fast and Slow; 4. Gestalt Shifts in the Liar or Why KT4M Is the Logic of Semantic Modalities; 5. Toward Resolving the Liar Paradox; 6. Microlanguages, Vagueness, and Paradox; 7. I-Languages and T-Sentences; 8. The Liar without Truth; 9. Semantics for Semantics; 10. Revising Inconsistent Concepts; 11. Truth and Transcendence: Turning the Tables on the Liar Paradox; 12. Truth, Hierarchy, and Incoherence; 13. Semantic Paradoxes and Abductive Methodology; 14. Pluralism and the Liar.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 18, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-067227-7
- 0-19-067228-5
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