<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Jamie Tappenden was one of the first authors to entertain the possibility of a common treatment for the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes. In order to deal with these two paradoxes he proposed using the Strong Kleene semantic scheme. This strategy left unexplained our tendency to regard as true certain sentences which, according to this semantic scheme, should lack truth value. Tappenden tried to solve this problem by using a new speech act, articulation. Unlike assertion, which implies truth, articulation only implies non-falsity. In this paper I argue that Tappenden’s strategy cannot be successfully applied to truth and the Liar.</p></abstract>

Jamie Tappenden was one of the first authors to entertain the possibility of a common treatment for the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes. In order to deal with these two paradoxes he proposed using the Strong Kleene semantic scheme. This strategy left unexplained our tendency to regard as true certain sentences which, according to this semantic scheme, should lack truth value. Tappenden tried to solve this problem by using a new speech act, articulation. Unlike assertion, which implies truth, articulation only implies non-falsity. In this paper I argue that Tappenden’s strategy cannot be successfully applied to truth and the Liar.

Articulation and Liars

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Jamie Tappenden was one of the first authors to entertain the possibility of a common treatment for the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes. In order to deal with...

Articulation and Liars

Published Online: Mar 06, 2018

Page range: 383 - 399

Received: Oct 04, 2017

Accepted: Jun 15, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/disp-2017-0011

Keywords
Paradoxes, truth, vagueness, Sorites, the Liar

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Articulation and Liars

Published Online: Mar 06, 2018

Page range: 383 - 399

Received: Oct 04, 2017

Accepted: Jun 15, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/disp-2017-0011

KeywordsParadoxes, truth, vagueness, Sorites, the Liar

© 2018

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Paradoxes, truth, vagueness, Sorites, the Liar