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On pathological truths
Fecha
2014-12Registro en:
Rosenblatt, Lucas Daniel; Szmuc, Damián Enrique; On pathological truths; Cambridge University Press; Review of Symbolic Logic; 7; 4; 12-2014; 601-617
1755-0203
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Rosenblatt, Lucas Daniel
Szmuc, Damián Enrique
Resumen
In Kripke's classic paper on truth it is argued that by adding a new semantic category different from truth and falsity it is possible to have a language with its own truth predicate. A substantial problem with this approach is that it lacks the expressive resources to characterize those sentences which fall under the new category. The main goal of this paper is to offer a refinement of Kripke's approach in which this difficulty does not arise. We tackle this characterization problem by letting certain sentences belong to more than one semantic category. We also consider the prospect of generalizing this framework to deal with languages containing vague predicates.