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The liar speaks the truth: A defense of the revision theory of truth

By Aladdin M. Yaq=ub

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1993
ISBN
0195083431, 9780195083439, 9781429407915
LCC
BD171 .Y37 1993
Open Library ID
OL1732815M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
983 kB (1006858 bytes)
Edition
OUP
Pages
163\163
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

In this book, Yaqub describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth. This conception takes the Tarskian biconditionals (such as "The sentence 'Johannes loved Clara' is true if and only if Johannes loved Clara") as correctly and completely defining the notion of truth. The semantical theory, which is called the revision theory, that emerges from this conception paints a metaphysical picture of truth as a property whose applicability is given by a revision process rather than by a fixed extension. The main advantage of this revision process is its ability to explain why truth seems in many cases almost redundant, in others substantial, and yet in others paradoxical (as in the famous Liar). Yaub offers a comprehensive defense of the revision theory of truth by developing consistent and adequate formal semantics for languages in which all sorts of problematic sentences (Liar and company) can be constructed. Yaqub concludes by introducing a logic of truth that further demonstrates the adequacy of the revision theory.

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