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Liar paradox


 

In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical statements such as:

References

  • Barwise, Jon and John Etchemendy 1987: The Liar. Oxford University Press.
  • Hughes, G.E., 1992. John Buridan on Self-Reference : Chapter Eight of Buridan's Sophismata, with a Translation, and Introduction, and a Philosophical Commentary, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521288649 (Buridan's detailed solution to a number of such paradoxes).
  • Kirkham, Richard 1992: Theories of Truth. Bradford Books. Chapter 9 is a very good discussion of the paradox.
  • Kripke, Saul 1975: "An Outline of a Theory of Truth" Journal of Philosophy 72:690-716.
  • Priest, Graham 1984: "The Logic of Paradox Revisited" Journal of Philosophical Logic 13:153-179.
  • Prior, A. N. 1976: Papers in Logic and Ethics. Duckworth.
  • Liar Paradox — at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Smullyan, Raymond: What is the Name of this Book? (a collection of logic puzzles exploring this theme)
 

~ Table of Content ~

Introduction
The words of Eubulides of Miletus
The Epimenides paradox
A discussion of the liar paradox
Gödel's theorem
References

 

 

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