Truth Be Told: Sense, Quantity, and Extension - Couverture rigide

Justice, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1433130092 ISBN 13 : 9781433130090

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes. Currently, semantic theory employs generalized quantifiers as the extensions of noun phrases in explanations of the composition of truth-values. Generalized quantifiers are direct descendants of the second-level functions to truth-values that Gottlob Frege considered to be the referents of his unrestricted quantifiers. During the past fifty years, Frege's original quantifier referents have been revised and generalized with the result that now every noun phrase, of any type, has a generalized quantifier as its extension. This evolution of noun-phrase extensions from Frege's referents has retained two of the original theory's flaws. First, generalized quantifiers inherit a troublesome intrusion of predicate extensions. Second, the senses of names and deictic terms are still not identified, with the result that their extensions are not sharply distinguished from their referents. Truth Be Told frees semantic theory from these Fregean flaws. Its theory of sense, quantity, and extension yields an intuitive composition of sentence truth-values and secures an accurate understanding of truth. Its final chapter applies the theory in a diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes that is immune to the notorious revenge paradoxes. Truth Be Told can be used for courses in philosophy of language, semantics, and the foundations of logic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Justice is the recipient of a PhD in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Dr. Justice is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Randolph College, receiving the honor of Mary Frances Williams Professor. His publications include "On Sense and Reflexivity" in the Journal of Philosophy, "Mill-Frege Compatibilism" in the Journal of Philosophical Research, "The Semantics of Rigid Designation" in Ratio, and "Unified Semantics of Singular Terms" in The Philosophical Quarterly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1433130092
• ISBN 13: 9781433130090
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 87
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne