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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: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:58:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.000227.9652@u.washington.edu>, petry@pythagoras.math.washington.edu (David Petry) writes:
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- |> The question is, how do you know that in the original context the subject
- |> refers to the sentence itself? The answer is that you have been taught
- |> to "see" paradox. Many, perhaps most, people that have not been taught
- |> to see the paradox will ask the question "What sentence is being referred
- |> to?" when they see the sentence "This sentence is false."
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- I simply do not believe this last claim since it does not conform to
- my experience (gathered in part from seeing how innumerable undergraduates
- respond to such examples). Moreover, no one has any more trouble with
- the referent of the subject in the pathological examples than in
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- This sentence contains five words.
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- I have yet to encounter anyone who had difficulty understanding this.
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- |> Anyways, I find that most people who defend the paradoxes have at their
- |> command laws of logic which I never even imagined could exist.
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- Yeah, right.
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- |> I will
- |> probably drop out of this discussion.
-
- Okay.
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