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Formal theories of truth
- Title
- Formal theories of truth / JC Beall, Michael Glanzberg, David Ripley.
- Author
- Beall, J. C.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 138 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Truth is one of the oldest and most central topics in philosophy. Formal theories explore the connections between truth and logic, and they address truth-theoretic paradoxes such as the Liar. Three leading philosopher-logicians now present a concise overview of the main issues and ideas in formal theories of truth. Beall, Glanzberg, and Ripley explain key logical techniques on which such formal theories rely, providing the formal and logical background needed to develop formal theories of truth. They examine the most important truth-theoretic paradoxes, including the Liar paradoxes. They explore approaches that keep principles of truth simple while relying on nonclassical logic; approaches that preserve classical logic but do so by complicating the principles of truth; and approaches based on substructural logics that change the shape of the target consequence relation itself. Finally, inconsistency and revision theories are reviewed, and contrasted with the approaches previously discussed. For any reader who has a basic grounding in logic, this book offers an ideal guide to formal theories of truth.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-3050
- ISBN
- 0198815689
- 9780198815686
- 9780198815679
- 0198815670
- LCCN
- 2017959733
- OCLC
- 1005861427
- Author
- Beall, J. C., author.
- Title
- Formal theories of truth / JC Beall, Michael Glanzberg, David Ripley.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) and indexes.
- Added Author
- Glanzberg, Michael, author.Ripley, David, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-3050