The innocence of truth in semantic paradox
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Eric Guindon
Brown University
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According to some philosophers, the Liar paradox arises because of a mistaken theory of truth. Its lesson is that we must reject some instances of the naive propositional truth-schema ⌜It is true that φ if and only if φ⌝. In this paper, I construct a novel semantic paradox in which no principle even analogous to the truth-schema plays any role. I argue that this undermines the claim that we ought to respond to the Liar by revising our theory of truth.
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| Keywords | Truth Semantic paradox Liar paradox Alethic revisionism Logical revisionism Higher-order quantification |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10670-018-0094-5 |
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