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Doubting Thomas: from Bradwardine back to Anon

Goldstein, Laurence (2008) Doubting Thomas: from Bradwardine back to Anon. In: Rahman, Shahid and Tulenheimo, Tero and Genot, Emmanuel, eds. Unity, Truth and the Liar: The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 65-85. ISBN 978-1-4020-8467-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:1200)

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Abstract

Thomas Bradwardine, an Archbishop of Canterbury and one of the great logicians of the fourteenth century devised a novel approach to the Liar paradox, the upshot of which is that someone uttering a Liar sentence fails to speak the truth. But does this mean that that person utters a falsity, as Bradwardine claims, or that the speaker fails to utter a falsity as well as failing to utter a truth? An author writing more than a century before Bradwardine thinks the latter, holding that the Liar utterance does not express a proposition. That view, which pretty much died out in the mediaeval period, is here revived, and is revealed to be superior to Bradwardine’s.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Laurence Goldstein
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2007 18:47 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:40 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/1200 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Goldstein, Laurence.

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