The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity - Softcover

Barwise, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195059441 ISBN 13: 9780195059441

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like the Liar. The authors base this solution on J. L. Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics. They compare two models of language, propositions and truth, one based on Russell and the other on Austin, as they bear on the Liar Paradox. In Russell's view, a sentence expresses a proposition, which is true or not. According to Austin, however, there is always a contextual parameter - the situation the sentence is about - that comes between the sentence and proposition. The Austinian perspective proves to have fruitful applications to the analysis of semantic paradox. The authors show that, on this account, the liar is a genuine diagonal argument. This argument can be shown to have profound consequences for our understanding of some of the most basic semantical mechanisms at work in our language.

Jon Barwise is, with John Perry, a co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195059441
• ISBN 13: 9780195059441
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
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