Introduction and strict-tolerant在线视频

Abstract: 

A half-truth may be defined as a sentence that is true in one sense, but that fails to be true in another sense. This paper discusses some aspects in which the Liar may be considered a half-truth. Talk of half-truths, like talk of half-full containers, implies that truth is gradable, and moreover that some sentences can be true without being perfectly true. I review some evidence for the view that ''true'' and ''false'' are absolute gradable adjectives (Unger 1975, Henderson 2019, Egré 2019), and discuss the implications of the view for both dialetheism and the strict-tolerant account of the Liar (Cobreros et al. 2013). The view that the Liar is a half-truth is controversial. For a dialetheist, the Liar is both true and false, but to say this is to consider that the sentence is both perfectly true and perfectly false, only that it fails to be ''just true'' or ''just false'' (Priest 2019). Likewise, while the strict-tolerant account was initially conceived for vague predicates, its extension to the semantic paradoxes assumed that assertion, but not truth, comes in different degrees. I argue that we get a better explanation for the unified treatment of paradoxes of vagueness and truth offered by ST if we consider that ''true'' is a special kind of vague predicate. Because ''true'' is absolute gradable, its gradability is more constrained than for relative adjectives, but linguistic evidence indicates a systematic alternation between tolerant and strict meanings.

Invited Speaker：

Paul Egré (born in 1975) is a CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) researcher based at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris and a Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure, Paris. After studying philosophy and mathematical logic at Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 and at Princeton University, he obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne in 2004. Egré was hired by CNRS in 2005 and has been a member of the Institut Jean Nicod ever since.

Egré’s research focuses mostly on language and cognition, with specific interests in natural language semantics, philosophical logic, epistemology and the philosophy of mind.