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The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity Paperback - 1989

by Jon Barwise; John Etchemendy (Joint Author)


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Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors model two distinct conceptions of propositions: one based on the standard notion used by Bertrand Russell, among others, and the other based on J.L. Austin's work on truth. Comparing these two accounts, the authors show that while the Russellian conception of the relation between sentences, propositions, and truth is crucially flawed in limiting cases, the Austinian perspective has fruitful applications to the analysis of semantic paradox. In the course of their study of a language admitting circular reference and containing its own truth predicate, Barwise and Etchemendy also develop a wide range of model-theoretic techniques--based on a new set-theoretic tool, Peter Aczel's theory of hypersets--that open up new
avenues in logical and formal semantics.

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  • Title The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity
  • Author Jon Barwise; John Etchemendy (Joint Author)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 1989-04-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195059441 / 0195059441
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.49 x 0.56 in (20.83 x 13.94 x 1.42 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86031260
  • Dewey Decimal Code 165
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