
The Incomplete Universe
Totality, Knowledge, and Truth
Patrick Grim(Author)
Bradford Books (Publisher)
Published on 8. November 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-0-262-51911-3 (ISBN)
Description
The central claim of this powerful philosophical exploration is that within any logic we have, there can be no coherent notion of all truth or of total knowledge. Grim examines a series of logical paradoxes and related formal results to reveal their implications for contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He reaches the provocative conclusion that, if the universe is thought of in terms of its truths, it is essentially open and incomplete. The Incomplete Universe includes detailed work on the liar paradox and recent attempts at solution, Kaplan and Montague's paradox of the knower, the Gödel theorems and related incompleteness phenomena, and new forms of Cantorian argument. The emphasis throughout is philosophical rather than formal, with an eye to connection's with possible worlds, the notion of omniscience, and the opening lines of the Tractatus: "The world is all that is the case. "
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Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
273 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51911-3 (9780262519113)
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11/1991
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Patrick Grim is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.