| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2008
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| Host editors |
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S. Rahman
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T. Tulenheimo
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E. Genot
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| Book title |
Unity, truth and the liar: The modern relevance of medieval solutions to the liar paradox
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| ISBN |
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| Series |
Logic, epistemology and the unity of science, 8
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| Pages (from-to) |
41-63
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| Number of pages |
338
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| Publisher |
Dordrecht: Springer
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| Organisations |
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Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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| Abstract |
I argue that Tarski's truth schema (T) concerns meaning just as much as it concerns truth. Better said, (T) implicitly presupposes a theory of meaning; it rests on a simple and yet contentious assumption, namely what Andjelković and Williamson [1] have termed the principle of uniformity (U): every sentence of a language says exactly one thing. I here challenge the validity of (U), and, insofar as (U) is a necessary condition for the validity of (T), I conclude that (T) is false.
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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8468-3_3
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