Paradoxes 1st Edition Piotr łukowski Marek Gensler Translator by Piotr Łukowski; Marek Gensler (translator) 9789400714755, 9789400714762, 9789400736382, 9400714750, 9400714769, 940073638X instant download after payment.

Chapters: • Introduction • Paradoxes of Wrong Intuition • Paradoxes of Ambiguity • Paradoxes of Self-Reference • Ontological Paradoxes

This monograph is devoted to paradoxes of reasoning in the European tradition of philosophical logic. For each paradox, it analyses important attempts at its solution. The content is arranged according to the new classification of paradoxes presented by the author. The paradoxes discussed in the first three chapters can be called intra-linguistic ones. The first chapter is a bried introduction. The second chapter analyzes paradoxes resulting from a clash between a logically correct reasoning and previously accepted opinions. The third one is devoted to paradoxes resulting from the error of ambiguity. The fourth one analyzes reasonings, whose paradoxical character originates in self-referent language constructions. Chapter five discusses paradoxes which are called ontological ones, whose existence results from a confrontation between the language description of reality and that reality itself.

The book is written in a clear way and does not require advanced knowledge of logic. It is addressed to readers with either humanist or scientific educational background and deals with important problems of language, cognition and reasoning in an accessible way.