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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-9485(e) ISSN 0273-0979(p)

     

Book Review

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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, Three views of common knowledge, Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge. II (M. Vardi, ed.), Morgan Kauffmann, Publishers, 1988, pp. 365-380. MR 1011097
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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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