Philosopher's Digest » Semantics http://www.philosophersdigest.com Timely Reviews of Current Philosophy Articles Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 “Inconsistency Theories of Semantic Paradox” Douglas Patterson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cinconsistency-theories-of-semantic-paradox%e2%80%9d-douglas-patterson http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/%e2%80%9cinconsistency-theories-of-semantic-paradox%e2%80%9d-douglas-patterson#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:00:09 +0000 Berit Brogaard http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=372 Main authors discussed: Alfred Tarski, Kirk Ludwig, Matti Eklund

Douglas Patterson argues that the best way to respond to the semantic paradoxes that arise in natural language is to take natural language semantics to be (explosively) inconsistent. According to Patterson, to understand…

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