On meaningfulness and truth

Authors
Citation
Be. Mcdonald, On meaningfulness and truth, J PHILOS LO, 29(5), 2000, pp. 433-482
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Philosiphy
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
ISSN journal
00223611 → ACNP
Volume
29
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Pages
433 - 482
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3611(200010)29:5<433:OMAT>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
We show how to construct certain L_M, T-type interpreted languages, with ea ch such language containing meaningfulness and truth predicates which apply to itself. These languages are comparable in expressive power to the L_T-t ype, truth-theoretic languages first considered by Kripke, yet each of our L_M, T-type languages possesses the additional advantage that, within it, t he meaninglessness of any given meaningless expression can itself be meanin gfully expressed. One therefore has, for example, the object level truth (a nd meaningfulness) of the claim that the strengthened Liar is meaningless.