The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity

by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy

Book Overview

Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors model two distinct conceptions of propositions: one based on the standard notion used by Bertrand Russell, among others, and the other based on J.L. Austin's work on truth. Comparing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195059441
• ISBN13: 9780195059441
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"