The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity by Jon Barwise (English) Paperback B

The Liar by Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy

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Description In this book the authors bring powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language to bear in proposing a novel solution to the paradox like the Liar. The authors also develop a wide range of model-theoretic techniques that open up new avenues in logic and semantics.

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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 acontextual 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 semanticparadox. 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.

Author Biography

Barwise is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and Researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Details ISBN 0195059441 ISBN-13 9780195059441 Title The Liar Author Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy Format Paperback Year 1989 Pages 208 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137019153; About Us

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