Truth, signification and paradox

Stephen Read

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9673-6_20

Truth, signification and paradox

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Abstract

Thomas Bradwardine's solution to the semantic paradoxes, presented in his Insolubilia written in Oxford in the early 1320s, turns on two main principles: that a proposition is true only if things are wholly as it signifies; and that signification is closed under consequence. After exploring the background in Walter Burley's account of the signification of propositions, I consider the extent to which Bradwardine's theory is compatible with the compositional principles of the distribution of truth over conjunction, disjunction, negation and the conditional.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unifying the Philosophy of Truth
Editors	Dora Achourioti, Henri Galinon, Jose Martinez Fernandez, Kentaro Fujimoto
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer
Pages	393-408
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-94-017-9673-6
ISBN (Print)	978-94-017-9672-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9673-6_20
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2015

Publication series

Name	Logic, Epistemology and the Unity of Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	36
ISSN (Print)	2214-9775

Keywords

Truth
Meaning
Paradox
Sophism
Bivalence
Closure principles
Conjunction
Disjunction
Negation
Conditional
Compositionality
Distributivity
Bradwardine
Burley
Geulincx
Ricardus Sophista

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FOUNDATIONS OF LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE: Foundations of Logical Consequence
Read, S. (PI), Priest, G. G. (CoI), Shapiro, S. (CoI) & Celani, L. (Student)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
1/01/09 → 30/06/12
Project: Standard

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