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- Title
Sets, lies, and analogy: a new methodological take.
- Authors
Terzian, Giulia
- Abstract
The starting point of this paper is a claim defended most famously by Graham Priest: that given certain observed similarities between the set-theoretic and the semantic paradoxes, we should be looking for a 'uniform solution' to the members of both families. Despite its indisputable surface attractiveness, I argue that this claim hinges on a problematic reasoning move. This is seen most clearly, I suggest, when the claim and its underlying assumptions are examined by the lights of a novel, quite general and, I contend, promising take on inter-theoretic analogy. The ensuing discussion is intended to serve as both a possible case study and a first step towards the broader aim of the paper: namely, to initiate a wider conversation on the methodology of paradox-solving on the one hand, and the use of inter-theoretic analogies on the other.
- Subjects
ANALOGY (Linguistics); SEMANTICS; NATURALISM; PARADOX; PRIEST, Graham
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2021, Vol 178, Issue 9, p2759
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-020-01579-9