Overview
- Provides a formal reconstruction of several medieval theories of truth, demonstrating their relevance to modern research
- Approaches the discussion about truth theory and paradoxes from a semantical, logical and a historical perspective
- Contains critical editions of the medieval sources of the insolubilia, such as Heytesbury’s treatise on Insolubles (14th century), with introduction and notes
- Revives the debate on the Liar Paradox
- Entirely written in dispute style
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 8)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Disputatio
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Historical Background: Restrictionism versus the Manifold Theory of Meaning
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unity, Truth and the Liar
Book Subtitle: The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox
Editors: Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8468-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8467-6Published: 28 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7888-9Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8468-3Published: 27 September 2008
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 338
Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Medieval Philosophy