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

January 2010

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

doi:10.1007/s11098-009-9468-5

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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