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Formalization of a scholastic solution of the paradox of the "liar"
pp. 64-66
Abstract
Paulus Venetus 1 (died 1429) enumerates no fewer than fourteen distinct solutions of the paradox of the "Liar"2 of which one corresponds precisely to the modern; the author nevertheless declines all of them and offers another, the fifteenth. This solution comes about from the distinction of two modes of meaning: (a) the meaning (significatio) with no further determination, (b) the "precise and adequate" meaning (significatio vraecisa et adaequata). A proposition means in the first place precisely what it means and nothing else; in the second place, it means also that it is itself true.
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Menne Albert (1962) Logico-philosophical studies. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 64-66
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-3649-8_5
Full citation:
Bocheński Joseph (1962) „Formalization of a scholastic solution of the paradox of the "liar"“, In: A. Menne (ed.), Logico-philosophical studies, Dordrecht, Springer, 64–66.