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Book Information
Author(s):
Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy
Title:
The Liar: An essay in truth and circularity
Additional book information:
Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1987, xii + 185 pp., $19.95. ISBN 0-19-505072-x
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- J. Barwise and J. Perry, Situations and attitudes, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1983.
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- D. A. Bochvar, On a three-valued logical calculus and its application to the analysis of contradictories, Math. Sb. 4 (1939).
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- T. Givón, Negation in language: pragmatics, function, ontology, Cole, P. Syntax and Semantics, vol. 9, pp. 69-112, Academic Press, New York, 1978.
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- S. Haack, Philosophy of logics, Cambridge University Press, 1985. MR 1881284
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- S. Kripke, Outline of a theory of truth, J. Philos. 72 (1975), 690-716. Reprinted in Martin [9] 53-81.
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- G. Lakoff, Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories tell us about the mind, Univ. of Chicago, 1987.
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- R. L. Martin, Recent essays on truth and the liar paradox, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1984.
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- A. Tarski, The concept of truth in formalized languages, Logic, semantics, metamathematics, Clarendon Press, 1956.
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Lawrence S.
Moss
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
20
(1989),
216-225.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15770-4
PII:
S 0273-0979(1989)15770-4
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