Is the Sentence 'What I Am Hereby Asserting Is True' Meaningful? Philosophical Logic Matters
Chapter
Publication Date:
2020
abstract:
The paper elaborates a classification of self-referring sentences and discusses the meaningfulness of the sentence 'What I am hereby asserting is true'. In conclusion, the paper argues for the meaninglessness of that sentence, on the ground of a Wittgensteinian truth-conditions approach.
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
Philosophical logic, Self-reference, Heterologicality, Heteronoeticality, Meaning
List of contributors:
Colloca, Stefano
Book title:
Mantua Humanistic Studies. Volume XII
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