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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Patrick Grim is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 165 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects: Truth; Certainty; Knowledge, Theory of; Liar paradox; Truth Philosophical aspects; Philosophy Logic. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 420455
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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 165 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects: Truth; Certainty; Knowledge, Theory of; Liar paradox; Truth Philosophical aspects; Philosophy Logic. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 420455
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The MIT Press: 1991. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Inscription on the first free end paper and notes from a previous reader on the rear free end paper. Unclipped jacket is faded and edge worn. Book is very good, jacket on the lower end of very good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1721790896195
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