Liars and Heaps

New Essays on Paradox

Jc Beall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

382 Seiten

2004
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-926481-0 (ISBN)

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Logic is fundamental to thought and language. But which logical principles are correct? The so-called Liar and Heap paradoxes challenge our basic ideas about logic; they teach us that the correct logical principles are not as obvious as common sense would have it. The essays in this volume, discuss novel thoughts about the paradoxes.

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.

PART I: SORITICAL PARADOXES ; PART II: SEMANTIC PARADOXES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2004
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-926481-3 / 0199264813
ISBN-13	978-0-19-926481-0 / 9780199264810
Zustand	Neuware