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Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics Ser.: Truth Be Told : Sense, Quantity, and Extension by John Justice (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-101433130092
ISBN-139781433130090
eBay Product ID (ePID)219180660
Product Key Features
Number of Pages79 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTruth Be Told : Sense, Quantity, and Extension
Publication Year2015
SubjectLanguage, Linguistics / Semantics, General, Logic
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn Justice
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
SeriesBerkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-048956
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number97
Number of Volumes0 vols.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal121/.68
Table Of ContentContents: Reflexive Senses - Sense and Quantity - Fixing Extensions - Formal Semantics - Liar Paradoxes: The Irreflexivity of Extension Reports.
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisTruth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes., Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes. Currently, semantic theory employs generalized quantifiers as the extensions of noun phrases in explanations of the composition of truth-values. Generalized quantifiers are direct descendants of the second-level functions to truth-values that Gottlob Frege considered to be the referents of his unrestricted quantifiers. During the past fifty years, Frege's original quantifier referents have been revised and generalized with the result that now every noun phrase, of any type, has a generalized quantifier as its extension. This evolution of noun-phrase extensions from Frege's referents has retained two of the original theory's flaws. First, generalized quantifiers inherit a troublesome intrusion of predicate extensions. Second, the senses of names and deictic terms are still not identified, with the result that their extensions are not sharply distinguished from their referents. Truth Be Told frees semantic theory from these Fregean flaws. Its theory of sense, quantity, and extension yields an intuitive composition of sentence truth-values and secures an accurate understanding of truth. Its final chapter applies the theory in a diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes that is immune to the notorious revenge paradoxes. Truth Be Told can be used for courses in philosophy of language, semantics, and the foundations of logic.
LC Classification NumberP325.J85 2015
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