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  1. When the Inference 'p is true, therefore p' Fails: John Buridan on the Evaluation of Propositions.Ernesto Perini-Santos - 2013 - Vivarium 51 (1-4):411-424.
    For John Buridan, truth-bearers are assertions. This fact explains why the inference ‘p is true, therefore p’ may fail. On the one hand, the tense of the verb plus the time of utterance do not determine the time about which a sentence is intended to be true: the intention of the speaker is needed. On the other hand, since the meaning of vocal and written words is conventional, it may seem that they can be used with different meanings on each (...)
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  • John Buridan’s Theory of Truth and the Paradox of the Liar.Ernesto Perini-Santos - 2011 - Vivarium 49 (1-3):184-213.
    The solution John Buridan offers for the Paradox of the Liar has not been correctly placed within the framework of his philosophy of language. More precisely, there are two important points of the Buridanian philosophy of language that are crucial to the correct understanding of his solution to the Liar paradox that are either misrepresented or ignored in some important accounts of his theory. The first point is that the Aristotelian formula, ` propositio est vera quia qualitercumque significat in rebus (...)
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