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Book Information:
Authors:
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.
Peter Aczel, Non-well-founded sets, CSLI Lecture Notes, vol. 14, Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA, 1988. With a foreword by Jon Barwise [K. Jon Barwise]. MR 940014
Jon Barwise, Three views of common knowledge, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge (Pacific Grove, CA, 1988) Morgan Kaufmann, Los Altos, CA, 1988, pp. 365–379. MR 1011097
3. J. Barwise and J. Perry, Situations and attitudes, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1983.
4. D. A. Bochvar, On a three-valued logical calculus and its application to the analysis of contradictories, Math. Sb. 4 (1939).
5. T. Givón, Negation in language: pragmatics, function, ontology, Cole, P. Syntax and Semantics, vol. 9, pp. 69-112, Academic Press, New York, 1978.
Susan Haack, Philosophy of logics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. Reprint of 1978 original. MR 1881284
7. S. Kripke, Outline of a theory of truth, J. Philos. 72 (1975), 690-716. Reprinted in Martin [9] 53-81.
8. G. Lakoff, Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories tell us about the mind, Univ. of Chicago, 1987.
9. R. L. Martin, Recent essays on truth and the liar paradox, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1984.
10. A. Tarski, The concept of truth in formalized languages, Logic, semantics, metamathematics, Clarendon Press, 1956.
- 1.
- P. Aczel, Non-well-founded sets, CSLI Lecture Notes no. 14, 1988. MR 0940014
- 2.
- J. Barwise, Three views of common knowledge, Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge. II (M. Vardi, ed.), Morgan Kauffmann, Publishers, 1988, pp. 365-380. MR 1011097
- 3.
- J. Barwise and J. Perry, Situations and attitudes, Bradford Books, MIT Press, 1983.
- 4.
- D. A. Bochvar, On a three-valued logical calculus and its application to the analysis of contradictories, Math. Sb. 4 (1939).
- 5.
- T. Givón, Negation in language: pragmatics, function, ontology, Cole, P. Syntax and Semantics, vol. 9, pp. 69-112, Academic Press, New York, 1978.
- 6.
- S. Haack, Philosophy of logics, Cambridge University Press, 1985. MR 1881284
- 7.
- S. Kripke, Outline of a theory of truth, J. Philos. 72 (1975), 690-716. Reprinted in Martin [9] 53-81.
- 8.
- G. Lakoff, Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories tell us about the mind, Univ. of Chicago, 1987.
- 9.
- R. L. Martin, Recent essays on truth and the liar paradox, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1984.
- 10.
- A. Tarski, The concept of truth in formalized languages, Logic, semantics, metamathematics, Clarendon Press, 1956.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Lawrence S. Moss
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
20 (1989), 216-225
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15770-4