SYNTACTIC LIARS

Author(s): HARTLEY SLATER
Journal: Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations
ISSN: 1841-0295
Year: 2005
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Full text: http://denbridgepress.com/lpi_abstract.php?a=1
Publisher: Denbridge Press - New York
Abstract: The difficulty with syntactic liars is that there would seem to be very good reason to identify the thing said which is true with the thing said which is false. Natural language does allow consistent semantic closure, once we investigate indirect speech further, and so see that there can be no general 1-1 correspondence between speech and meaning.