The Truth-Schema and the Liar

Stephen Louis Read

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8468-3_1

The Truth-Schema and the Liar

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Abstract

Since Tarski published his study of the concept of truth in the 1930s, it has been orthodox practice to suppose that every instance of the T-schema is true. However, some instances of the schema are false. These include the paradoxical instances exemplified by the Liar sentence. It is shown that a better schema allows a uniform treatment of truth in which the semantic paradoxes turn out to be simply false.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unity, Truth and the Liar
Subtitle of host publication	The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox
Editors	Shahid Rahman, Tero Tulenheimo, Emmanuel Genot
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	3-17
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4020-8468-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4020-8467-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8468-3_1
Publication status	Published - 2008

Publication series

Name	Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
Volume	8

Keywords

Truth
Liar paradox
Correspondence platitude
Tarski
Bradwardine

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