Plato's account of falsehood a study of the Sophist
Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this 'falsehood paradox', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe falsehoods (because to say or believe a falsehood is to say or believe something that is not, an...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University
2012
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| Edición: | 1st pub |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1. The sophist defined; 2. Puzzles about not-being; 3. Puzzles about being; 4. The communion of kinds; 5. Negation and not-being; 6. Sentences, false sentences, and false beliefs; Appendix: the Sophist on true and false sentences: formal presentation.
