Liars and Heaps; New Essays on Paradox

Beall, JC (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0199264813 / ISBN 13: 9780199264810

Edité par Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2009

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pp. 369. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good.

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• Titre: Liars and Heaps; New Essays on Paradox
• Éditeur: Clarendon Press, Oxford
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0199264813
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780199264810
• Reliure: Paperback
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Logic is fundamental to thought and language. But which logical principles are correct? The paradoxes play a crucial role in answering that question. The so-called Liar and Heap paradoxes challenge our basic ideas about logic; at the very least, they teach us that the correct logical principles are not as obvious as common sense would have it. The essays in this volume, written by leading figures in the field, discuss novel thoughts about the paradoxes.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Semantic and soritical paradoxes challenge entrenched, fundamental principles about language - principles about truth, denotation, quantification, and, among others, 'tolerance'. Study of the paradoxes helps us determine which logical principles are correct. So it is that they serve not only as a topic of philosophical inquiry but also as a constraint on such inquiry: they often dictate the semantic and logical limits of discourse in general. Sixteen specially written essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments about the paradoxes.