Semantic Singularities
Paradoxes of Reference, Predication, and Truth
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 June 2018
- ISBN 9780198791546
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 241x164x22 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the Liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.
MoreLong description:
This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes. It argues for a unified solution to the paradoxes generated by our concepts of denotation, predicate extension, and truth. The solution makes two main claims. The first is that our semantic expressions 'denotes', 'extension' and 'true' are context-sensitive. The second, inspired by a brief, tantalizing remark of Gödel's, is that these expressions are significant everywhere except for certain singularities, in analogy with division by zero. A formal theory of singularities is presented and applied to a wide variety of versions of the definability paradoxes, Russell's paradox, and the Liar paradox. Keith Simmons argues that the singularity theory satisfies the following desiderata: it recognizes that the proper setting of the semantic paradoxes is natural language, not regimented formal languages; it minimizes any revision to our semantic concepts; it respects as far as possible Tarski's intuition that natural languages are universal; it responds adequately to the threat of revenge paradoxes; and it preserves classical logic and semantics. Simmons draws out the consequences of the singularity theory for deflationary views of our semantic concepts, and concludes that if we accept the singularity theory, we must reject deflationism.
Summing up: Recommended
Table of Contents:
Semantic Paradox
Paradox and Context
Singularities
Identifying Singularities
Paradoxes of Definability, Russell's Paradox, the Liar
A General Theory of Singularities
The Theory at Work
Revenge, I
Revenge, II
Consequences for Deflationism
