Revenge of the liar : new essays on the paradox /
Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it. - ;The Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it. - ;The Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in general). A simple Liar sentence like 'This sentence is false' appears to be both true and false if it is either true or false. For if the sentence is true, then what it says is the case; but what it says is that it is false, hence it must be false. On the other hand, if the statement is false, then it i. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 374 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 0191528501 9780191528507 9780199233915 0199233918 9780199233908 019923390X 1281150541 9781281150547 9786611150549 6611150544 |