Unity, Truth and the Liar
The Liar Paradox challenges logicians’ and semanticists’ theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and metalanguage. Yet this solution to the Liar presupposes that sentences have unique meaning. This assum...
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oai:112.137.131.14:VNU_123-309062020-06-15T07:21:58Z Unity, Truth and the Liar Rahman, Shahid Tulenheimo, Tero Genot, Emmanuel Humanities Social Science Truth Liar paradox Semantics (Philosophy) Logic, Medieval 165 The Liar Paradox challenges logicians’ and semanticists’ theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and metalanguage. Yet this solution to the Liar presupposes that sentences have unique meaning. This assumption is non-controversial in formal languages, but an account of how “hidden meaning” is made explicit is necessary to any complete analysis of natural language. Since the Liar Paradox presents itself as a sentence uniting contradictory meanings, appreciating how they can be united in a single sentence may provide new insights into this and other paradoxes (...) 2017-04-19T02:32:42Z 2017-04-19T02:32:42Z 2008 Book 978-1-4020-8467-6 http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/30906 en 351 p. application/pdf Springer |
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The Liar Paradox challenges logicians’ and semanticists’ theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and metalanguage. Yet this solution to the Liar presupposes that sentences have unique meaning. This assumption is non-controversial in formal languages, but an account of how “hidden meaning” is made explicit is necessary to any complete analysis of natural language. Since the Liar Paradox presents itself as a sentence uniting contradictory meanings, appreciating how they can be united in a single sentence may provide new insights into this and other paradoxes (...) |
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