Truth, Vagueness, and Paradox

“It is the only real treatise on truth in existence that takes full account of the liar paradox and other ‘semantical’ paradoxes and treats the sophisticated theories that have been developed in the last fifteen years. . . . The view of truth it expresses, the technical results obtained in working it out, and the general, self-contained treatment of the logical problems concerning truth combine to make this work a very important one.”
     —Charles Parsons, Harvard University

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An Essay on the Logic of Truth

Vann McGee

1990 - 246 pp.

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Awarded the 1988 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. Published with the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“It is the only real treatise on truth in existence that takes full account of the liar paradox and other ‘semantical’ paradoxes and treats the sophisticated theories that have been developed in the last fifteen years. . . . The view of truth it expresses, the technical results obtained in working it out, and the general, self-contained treatment of the logical problems concerning truth combine to make this work a very important one.”
     —Charles Parsons, Harvard University

 

Contents:

  • Our project.
  • 1. Formalized Versions of the Semantic Antinomies
  • 2. Logical Necessity
  • 3. Tarski’s Solutions to the Liar Antinomy
  • 4. Kripke and Three-Valued Logic
  • 5. Kripke’s Construction and the Theory of Inductive Definitions
  • 6. Rule-of-Revision Semantics
  • 7. Partially Interpreted Languages
  • 8. Truth in Partially Interpreted Languages
  • 9. Definite Truth in Partially Interpreted Languages
  • 10. Towards a Semantics of Natural Languages
  • Bibliography.