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What are we to accept, and what are we to reject, when saving truth from paradox?

“What are we to accept, and what are we to reject, when saving truth from paradox?” Philosophical Studies 147:3 (2010) 433–443.

In this article, I praise Hartry Field’s fine book Saving Truth From Paradox (Oxford University Press, 2008). I also show that his account of properties is threatened by a paradox, and I explain how we can only avoid this paradox by coming to a clearer understanding the connections between accepting and rejecting (or assertion and denial) and the identity conditions for properties.

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Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2010

Local file: stp.pdf (232KB)

DOI: 10.1007/s11098-009-9468-5

Subjects: paradox properties sequent truth

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I’m Greg Restall, and this is my website. I work in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Email: greg at consequently.org; Post: School of of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia.

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O, such a deed / As from the body of contraction plucks / The very soul
— Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 4, lines 44-46.