Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 579 g
New Essays on Paradox
Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 579 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-926481-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Semantic and soritical paradoxes challenge entrenched, fundamental principles about language and study of the paradoxes helps us determine which logical principles are correct. In this volume, 16 essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments 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 enquiry but also as a constraint on such enquiry: they often dictate the semantic and logical limits of discourse in general. In this volume, 16 specially written essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments about the paradoxes.
PART I: SORITICAL PARADOXES; 1. A Site for Sorites; 2. Cut-Offs and their Neighbours; 3. Vagueness and Conversation; 4. Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites; 5. Vagueness: A Fifth Column Approach; 6. Semantic Accounts of Vagueness; 7. Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates; 8. Against Truth-Value Gaps; 9. Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence, and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness; PART II: SEMANTIC PARADOXES; 10. A Definite No-No; 11. Reference and Paradox; 12. On the Singularity Theory of Denotation; 13. The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness; 14. New Grounds for Naive Truth Theory; 15. A Completeness Theorem for Unrestricted First-Order Languages; 16. Universal Universal Quantification
