Liars and Heaps New Essays on Paradox

Semantic and soritical paradoxes challenge entrenched, fundamental principles about language - principles about truth, denotation, quantification, and, among others, 'tolerance'. Study of the paradoxes helps us determine which logical principles are correct. So it is that they serve not only as a topic of philosophical inquiry but also as a constraint on such inquiry: they often dictate the semantic and logical limits of discourse in general. Sixteen specially written essays by leading figures in the field offer new thoughts and arguments about the paradoxes.Beall, J. C. is the author of 'Liars and Heaps New Essays on Paradox', published 2004 under ISBN 9780199264810 and ISBN 0199264813.