Semantic singularities : paradoxes of reference, predication, and truth /

Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.

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Paradoxes of reference, predication, and truth
Semantic Paradox --
Three Paradoxes --
Ramsey's Division --
Universality --
Plan of This Book --
Paradox and Context --
Introduction --
Repetition, Rehabilitation, Iteration --
Context-change and Discourse Analysis --
Context-change and Repetition --
Action of Context on Content --
Reflective Status as a Contextual Coordinate --
Four Tests for Context-sensitivity --
Simple Russell --
Simple Liar --
Singularities --
Minimality and Singularities --
Reflective Status --
More on Singularities --
Identifying Singularities --
Primary Trees --
Singularities and Semantic Universality --
Comparisons --
Paradoxes of Definability, Russell's Paradox, the Liar --
Paradoxes of Definability --
Richard's Paradox --
Berry and Konig --
Russell's Paradox --
Sets and Classes --
Extensions --
Extensions and Paradox --
Liar Paradox --
Strengthened Liar --
More Liars --
General Theory of Singularities --
Preliminaries --
Explicitly Reflective Contexts --
Determination Sets and Values --
Basic Notions --
0-expressions --
Reflective Hierarchy --
Reflection-free Expressions and Singularities --
Higher Levels of the Reflective Hierarchy --
Summary --
Theory at Work --
Transfinite Paradox of Denotation --
Truth-Teller, a Curry Sentence, Loops --
Truth-Teller and the Curry Paradox --
Loops --
New Paradoxes without Circularity --
Definability Paradox without Circularity --
Russell without Circularity --
Truth Paradoxes without Circularity --
Revenge, I --
Forms of Revenge --
Kripke's Theory of Truth --
Fields Theory of Truth --
Kripke and Non-classical Logic --
Field's Conditional --
Determinate Truth --
Field's Theory and Natural Language --
Dialetheism and Revenge --
Revenge, II --
Contextual Theories and Direct Revenge --
Contextual Theories and Second-order Revenge --
Singularity Theory and Revenge --
Consequences for Deflationism --
Deflationary Truth --
Deflationism Extended --
Deflationism and Semantic Paradox --
Three Deflationist Responses --
Pathology as Meaningless? --
Unrestricted Truth Schema? --
Restricted Truth Schema? --
Expressive Role of Truth --
Prosentential Theory and Horwich's Minimalism --
Prosentential Theory --
Horwich's Minimalism --
Concluding Remarks.
1. Verfasser:
Simmons, Keith
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-250920-9
0-19-185292-9
Schlagworte:
Paradox.
Liar paradox.
Semantics (Philosophy)
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