Saving truth from paradox /

Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the G--ouml--;del incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a syste...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Field, Hartry H.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Zusammenfassung:
Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the G--ouml--;del incompleteness theorems. Hartry Field presents a new approach to the paradoxes and provides a systematic and detailed account of the main competing approaches. Part One examines Tarski's, Kripke>'s, and Lukasiewicz>'s theories of truth, and discusses validity and soundness, and vagueness. Part Two considers a wide range of attempts to resolve the paradoxes within classical logic. In Part Three Fi
Umfang:
1 online resource (xv, 406 pages)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-397) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-171093-8
1-281-85264-3
9786611852641
0-19-152816-1
Schlagworte:
Paradox.
Truth.
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