The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth - Rilegato

Grim, Patrick

 
9780262071345: The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth
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ISBN 10: 0262071347 ISBN 13: 9780262071345
Casa editrice: Bradford Books, 1991

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The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete.

The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Godel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case. "

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Book by Grim Patrick

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Editore
Bradford Books
Data di pubblicazione
1991
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0262071347
ISBN 13 
9780262071345
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
180
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9780262519113: The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth

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ISBN 10:  0262519119 ISBN 13:  9780262519113
Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1991
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