Contextual Approaches to Truth and the Strengthened Liar Paradox / / Christine Schurz.

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• VerfasserIn: Schurz, Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Logos : Studien zur Logik, Sprachphilosophie und Metaphysik , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (145 p.)

The problem of truth and the liar paradox is one of the most extensive problems of philosophy. The liar paradox can be avoided by assuming a so-called theory of partial truth instead of a classical theory of truth. Theories of partial truth, however, cannot solve the so-called strengthened liar paradox, which is the problem that many semantic statements about the so-called strengthened liar cannot be true in a theory of partial truth. If such semantic statements were true in the theory, another paradox would emerge. To proponents of contextual accounts, which assume that the concept of truth is context-dependent, the strengthened liar paradox is the core of the liar problem. This book provides an overview of current contextual approaches to the strengthened liar paradox. For this purpose, the author investigates formal theories of truth that result from formal reconstructions of such contextual approaches.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Problem of Truth and the Liar Paradox in Formal Languages -- 3. Theories of Partial Truth -- 4. The Contextual Approach to the Strengthened Liar Problem -- 5. Contextual Approaches by Iterating Partial Truth Predicates -- 6. Summary and Conclusions -- Subject Index -- Bibliography