The Knowability Paradox

by Jonathan L. Kvanvig

Book Overview

The paradox of knowability, derived from a proof by Frederic Fitch in 1963, is one of the deepest paradoxes concerning the nature of truth. Jonathan Kvanvig argues that the depth of the paradox has not been adequately appreciated. It has long been known that the paradox threatens antirealist conceptions of truth according to which truth is epistemic. If truth is epistemic, what better way to express that idea than to maintain that all truths are knowable?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199556695
• ISBN13: 9780199556694
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"