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oup.com>Title: Liars and Heaps Subtitle: New Essays on Paradox Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford University Press http://www.oup-usa.org/, http://www.oup.co.uk Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926480-5 Editor: JC Beall, University of Connecticut Hardback: ISBN: 0199264805, Pages: 382, Price: 50.00 Comment: Paperback: ISBN: 0199264813, Pages: 382, Price: 19.99 Abstract: Semantic and soritical paradoxes challenge entrenched, fundamental principles about language - principles about truth, denotation, quantification, and, among others, 'tolerance'. Study of the paradoxes helps us determine which logical principles are correct. So it is that they serve not only as a topic of philosophical inquiry but also as a constraint on such inquiry: they often dictate the semantic and logical limits of discourse in general. Sixteen specially written essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments about the paradoxes. Lingfield(s): Philosophy of Language Semantics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8465.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue