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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Subject: Re: Self-Reference and Paradox (was Re: Human intelligence...)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:22:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.151559.13227@oracorp.com>, daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
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- |> In my opinion, the problem with such sentences are not with their
- |> self-referential character, but with their use of an unrestricted
- |> notion of truth (or falsity).
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- Of course this was Tarski's idea as well.
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- |>
- |> This sentence is false.
- |>
- |> refers to an unrestricted notion of falsity, and is therefore
- |> meaningless. We can replace "false" by a restricted notion of falsity
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- This sort of thing has been tried before. One problem is that the displayed
- sentence is *not* meaningless in any normal sense of this term. We
- know perfectly well what it means -- and that's the problem.
- --
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