10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIAR PARADOX»
Discover the use of
liar paradox in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
liar paradox and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest ...
Here is a veritable kaleidoscope of puzzling labyrinths, maps, bridges, and optical illusions that will keep aficionados entertained for hours.
2
Contextual Approaches to Truth and the Strengthened
Liar Paradox
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.
3
Revenge of the
Liar: New Essays on the
Paradox
Fourteen new essays by some of the world's leading experts, together with an extensive introduction, examine the nature of the Liar paradox and its resistance to any attempt to solve it.
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Universality and the
Liar: An Essay on Truth and the ...
This book is about one of the most baffling of all paradoxes--the famous Liar paradox.
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Unity, Truth and the
Liar: The Modern Relevance of Medieval ...
This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution to the Liar Paradox which did not assume Uniqueness of Meaning.
Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot, 2008
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The
Liar:An Essay on Truth and Circularity
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.
Jon Barwise, John Etchemendy, 1987
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Mathematics in Philosophy: Selected Essays
9 The Liar Paradox Why is it that today, more than sixty years after Principte
Mathe- matica and nearly forty years after the first publication of Tarski's
Wahrheitsbegriff, the liar paradox is still discussed as if it were an open problem?
What is the ...
8
Handbook of Philosophical Logic
... Volume II, 149-240. © 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the
Netherlands. Not many philosophers today would accept Ramsey's own
arguments for. ALBERT. VISSER. SEMANTICS AND THE LIAR PARADOX.
Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, 2004
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Truth and
Paradox: Solving the Riddles
Tim Maudlin sets out a novel account of logic and semantics which allows him to deal with certain notorious paradoxes which have bedevilled philosophical theories of truth.
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A Brief History of the
Paradox : Philosophy and the ...
The liar paradox is a particularly striking example (Spade 1973). One might
expect it to be kept steadily before the Christian eye because it is repeated in the
Bible: “One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are
always ...
Roy Sorensen Professor of Philosophy Dartmouth College, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIAR PARADOX»
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liar paradox is used in the context of the following news items.
Lies, truth, and meaning
It may seem surprising to get insight into the liar paradox from a skeptical view about the role of moral language. But philosophy is full of ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
Paradox and flowcharts
There are many variants of the Liar paradox. For example, we can formulate relatively straightforward examples of interrogative Liar paradoxes, ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
Readers recommend: chicken-and-egg songs
Among many forms of paradox, the mathematician and logician Philip Jourdain conceived of the liar paradox, of a card on which on one side ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
'Teach philosophy in primary schools,' says academic
She tells me that, in her experience, children love Zeno's paradox 'the moving arrow is motionless' or the Cretan liar paradox. "I tell them 'I ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
EXCLUSIVE: Loris Gréaud Breaks His Silence
Movement #3 is not only about revealing the plan, it is about inseminating doubt in reality by using the irresolute liar paradox: If “this sentence is ... «In the Air, Art+Auction's Gossip Column, Feb 15»
Resolving Paradoxes
The most famous paradox in language is the liar paradox. The simple statement 'This statement is false' is apparently both true and false. If it is true, then it ... «Philosophy Now, Jan 15»
EastEnders catch-up: Max Branning is a fluffy white cat away from …
Tonight's episode was a Max special as he presented us with another version of the liar paradox. “I'm a liar and I'm a cheat,” he told Lauren and ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jan 15»
The impossible painting
The older of the two– the Liar paradox – was known to ancient Greek philosophers, and challenges the following platitudes about truth: (T1) A ... «OUPblog, Nov 14»
A Funny Philosopher Tackles A Tough Query: 'Does Santa Exist?'
A famous example of this is the liar paradox: "This sentence is false." If you tell a robot in Star Trek "this sentence is false" ... it explodes. «NPR, Oct 14»
Israeli military demolishes West Bank dairy factory benefitting …
Yep, the Liar Paradox was originally Epimenides' baby… But it was Cretans, not Jews. And it was all Cretans all the time, no qualifications, ... «Mondoweiss, Sep 14»
