Liars and Heaps

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - A Site for Sorites2 - Cut-Offs and their Neighbours3 - Vagueness and Conversation4 - Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites5 - Vagueness: A Fifth Column Approach6 - Semantic Accounts of Vagueness7 - Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates8 - Against Truth-Value Gaps9 - Gap Principles, Penumbral Consequence, and Infinitely Higher-Order Vagueness10 - A Definite No-No11 - Reference and Paradox12 - On the Singularity Theory of Denotation13 - The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness14 - New Grounds for Naive Truth Theory15 - A Completeness Theorem for Unrestricted First-Order Languages16 - Universal Universal Quantification

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199264803
• Dimensioni: 241 x 25.0 x 162 mm Ø 675 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 384