Truth And Paradox: Solving the Riddles

Maudlin, Tim

ISBN 10: 0199203911 / ISBN 13: 9780199203918

Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006

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• Titolo: Truth And Paradox: Solving the Riddles
• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199203911
• ISBN 13: 9780199203918
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Like New
• Tipo di libro: book

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Riassunto

Consider the sentence 'This sentence is not true'. It seems that the sentence can be neither true nor not true, on pain of contradiction. Tim Maudlin sets out a novel account of logic and semantics which allows him to deal with certain notorious paradoxes which have bedevilled philosophical theories of truth. All philosophers interested in logic and language will find Truth and Paradox a stimulating read.

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Tim Maudlin's Truth and Paradox is a terrific book... the perspective it casts on [the] situation is completely novel ... sure to interest a wide range of philosophers, not just those with special interest in the paradoxes...lucid and lively, a pleasure to read. (Hartry Field, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)

Tim Maudlin offers a theory of truth that arises from a foundationalist picture of language. The picture is attractive, and Maudlin builds on it courageously (indeed, fearlessly) ... a though-provoking book, one that offers a novel way of conceptualizing a fixed-point theory of truth. (Anil Gupta, MIND)