Livre | Chapitre
Truth, signification and paradox
pp. 393-408
Résumé
Thomas Bradwardine's solution to the semantic paradoxes, presented in his Insolubilia written in Oxford in the early 1320s, turns on two main principles: that a proposition is true only if things are wholly as it signifies; and that signification is closed under consequence. After exploring the background in Walter Burley's account of the signification of propositions, I consider the extent to which Bradwardine's theory is compatible with the compositional principles of the distribution of truth over conjunction, disjunction, negation and the conditional.
Détails de la publication
Publié dans:
Achourioti Theodora, Galinon Henri, Martínez Fernández José, Fujimoto Kentaro (2015) Unifying the philosophy of truth. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 393-408
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9673-6_20
Citation complète:
Read Stephen, 2015, Truth, signification and paradox. In T. Achourioti, H. Galinon, J. Martínez Fernández & K. Fujimoto (eds.) Unifying the philosophy of truth (393-408). Dordrecht, Springer.