Paradox, Closure and Indirect Speech Reports
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Paradox, Closure and Indirect Speech Reports
Bradwardine’s solution to the the logical paradoxes depends on the idea that every sentence signifies many things, and its truth depends on things’ being wholly as it signifies. This idea is underpinned by his claim that a sentence signifies everything that follows from what it signifies. But the idea that signification is closed under entailment appears too strong, just as logical omniscience ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Logica Universalis
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1661-8297,1661-8300
DOI: 10.1007/s11787-014-0115-3