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- From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Self-Reference and Paradox (was Re: Human intelligence...)
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:53:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.151559.13227@oracorp.com> <BxtBwx.LvH@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <BxtBwx.LvH@unx.sas.com> sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.151559.13227@oracorp.com>, daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
- >|> 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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- No, we know what it SAYS, not what it MEANS.
- Ever talk to a woman? (copious smileys and a brief aside to mention that the
- shrinks find many relationship problems come down to different modes of
- language usage)
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