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Liar paradox. --- Antinomy of the liar --- Epimenidean paradox --- Liar antinomy --- Paradox of Epimenides --- Paradox of Russell --- Paradox of the liar --- Russell's paradox --- Logic --- Paradox --- Semantics (Philosophy)

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The concept of truth has been the focus of much attention in philosophical literature, but has resisted adequate explanation. This study explores a "deflationary" or "minimalist" account of truth that can account for the challenge posed by semantic paradoxes such as the liar.

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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.

Truth. --- Liar paradox. --- Antinomy of the liar --- Epimenidean paradox --- Liar antinomy --- Paradox of Epimenides --- Paradox of Russell --- Paradox of the liar --- Russell's paradox --- Logic --- Paradox --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism

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Theory of knowledge --- Truth. --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Liar paradox. --- Definition (Logic) --- Liar paradox --- Truth --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Antinomy of the liar --- Epimenidean paradox --- Liar antinomy --- Paradox of Epimenides --- Paradox of Russell --- Paradox of the liar --- Russell's paradox --- Logic --- Paradox --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Definability --- Undefinability --- Definition (Philosophy).

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This book is about one of the most baffling of all paradoxes - the famous Liar paradox. Suppose we say: 'We are lying now'. Then if we are lying, we are telling the truth; and if we are telling the truth we are lying. This paradox is more than an intriguing puzzle, since it involves the concept of truth. Thus any coherent theory of truth must deal with the Liar. Keith Simmons discusses the solutions proposed by medieval philosophers and offers his own solutions and in the process assesses other attempts to solve the paradox. Unlike such attempts, Simmons' 'singularity' solution does not abandon classical semantics and does not appeal to the kind of hierarchical view found in Barwise's and Etchemendy's The Liar. Moreover, Simmons' solution resolves the vexing problem of semantic universality - the problem of whether there are semantic concepts beyond the expressive reach of a natural language such as English.

Liar paradox. --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Liar paradox --- Antinomy of the liar --- Epimenidean paradox --- Liar antinomy --- Paradox of Epimenides --- Paradox of Russell --- Paradox of the liar --- Russell's paradox --- Universals (Philosophy). --- Universals (Logic) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Logic --- Philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Paradox --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Arts and Humanities