LINGUIST List 15.98
Thu Jan 15 2004
Books: Philosophy of Lang/Semantics: Beall (ed)
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tom.perridge, Liars and Heaps: Beall (ed)
Message 1: Liars and Heaps: Beall (ed)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 09:07:17 -0500 (EST)
From: tom.perridge <tom.perridgeoup.com>
Subject: Liars and Heaps: Beall (ed)
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
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: English)
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