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Contextual approaches to truth and the strengthened liar paradox /
The problem of truth and the liar paradox is one of the most extensive problems of philosophy. The liar paradox can be avoided by assuming a so-called theory of partial truth instead of a classical theory of truth. Theories of partial truth, however, cannot solve the so-called strengthened liar para...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heusenstamm [Germany] :
Ontos Verlag,
2012.
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| Colección: | Logos (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
Bd. 20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The problem of truth and the liar paradox is one of the most extensive problems of philosophy. The liar paradox can be avoided by assuming a so-called theory of partial truth instead of a classical theory of truth. Theories of partial truth, however, cannot solve the so-called strengthened liar paradox, which is the problem that many semantic statements about the so-called strengthened liar cannot be true in a theory of partial truth. If such semantic statements were true in the theory, another paradox would emerge. To proponents of contextual accounts, which assume that the concept of truth i. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110324587 311032458X 3868381724 9783868381726 3110324369 9783110324365 9781299722514 1299722512 |