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The Liar's Non-Paradox: Why Liar Sentences Present No Problems for the Concept of Truth

By John S. Pletz
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By John S. Pletz
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The Liar's Non-Paradox explains why the Liar's Paradox is not a paradox of all because the Liar sentence does not have truth potential and cannot be confirmed. Its superficially convincing contradiction ("If 'This sentence is false' is true, then it is false, but if it is false, then it is true") depends completely upon hypothetical premises which cannot support the conclusion that our ordinary concept of truth is deficient because it does not extend to all assertions. The author sets out i...

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PhilosophyMajor Branches of Philosophical StudyEpistemology (Theory of Knowledge)