Doubting Thomas: from Bradwardine back to Anon

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.