The Road to Paradox
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The Road to Paradox

A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Road to Paradox

A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

About this book

Truth, provability, necessity, and other concepts are fundamental to many branches of philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Their study has led to some of the most celebrated achievements in logic, such as Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Tarski's theorem on the undefinability of truth, and numerous accounts of the paradoxes associated with these concepts. This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It offers new analyses of the ideas of self-reference, circularity, and the semantic paradoxes, and helps readers to see both how paradoxes arise and what their common features are. It will be valuable for students and researchers with a minimal background in logic and will equip them to understand and discuss a wide variety of topics in philosophical logic.

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Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781108898164

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Imprint page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Aims and Ends
  9. 2 Technical Preliminaries
  10. 3 Predicates and Conceptual Analysis
  11. 4 Paradoxes over Logic
  12. 5 A Theory of Expressions
  13. 6 The Paradoxes
  14. 7 Possible-Worlds Semantics
  15. 8 An Expressive Theory of Expressions
  16. 9 Consistency, Denotation, and Arithmetic
  17. 10 Formal Language
  18. 11 Formal Truth
  19. 12 Generalizations and Intensionality
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

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