Contraction and revision

Australasian Journal of Logic 13 (3):58-77 (2016)
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Abstract

An important question for proponents of non-contractive approaches to paradox is why contraction fails. Zardini offers an answer, namely that paradoxical sentences exhibit a kind of instability. I elaborate this idea using revision theory, and I argue that while instability does motivate failures of contraction, it equally motivates failure of many principles that non-contractive theorists want to maintain.

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Shawn Standefer
National Taiwan University

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