TY - JOUR
T1 - Paradoxes of truth-in-context-X
AU - Gauker, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - We may suppose that the truth predicate that we utilize in our semantic metalanguage is a two-place predicate relating sentences to contexts, the truth-in-context-X predicate. Seeming paradoxes pertaining to the truth-in-context-X predicate can be blocked by placing restrictions on the structure of contexts. While contexts must specify a domain of contexts, and what a context constant denotes relative to a context must be a context in the context domain of that context, no context may belong to its own context domain. A generalization of that restriction appears to block all of the paradoxes of truth-in-context-X. This restriction entails that, in a certain sense, we cannot talk about the context we are in. This result will be defended, up to a point, on broadly ontological grounds. It will also be conjectured that our semantic metalanguage can be regarded as semantically closed.
AB - We may suppose that the truth predicate that we utilize in our semantic metalanguage is a two-place predicate relating sentences to contexts, the truth-in-context-X predicate. Seeming paradoxes pertaining to the truth-in-context-X predicate can be blocked by placing restrictions on the structure of contexts. While contexts must specify a domain of contexts, and what a context constant denotes relative to a context must be a context in the context domain of that context, no context may belong to its own context domain. A generalization of that restriction appears to block all of the paradoxes of truth-in-context-X. This restriction entails that, in a certain sense, we cannot talk about the context we are in. This result will be defended, up to a point, on broadly ontological grounds. It will also be conjectured that our semantic metalanguage can be regarded as semantically closed.
KW - semantic paradox
KW - context-relativity
KW - two-place truth predicate
KW - semantic closure
KW - Semantic paradox
KW - Two-place truth predicate
KW - Semantic closure
KW - Context-relativity
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UR - https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubs:3-23625
U2 - 10.1007/s11098-021-01733-x
DO - 10.1007/s11098-021-01733-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-8116
VL - 2023
JO - Philosophical Studies
JF - Philosophical Studies
IS - 180
ER -