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- Subject: Re: Self-Reference and Paradox (was Re: Human intelligence...)
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- From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 09:06:09 NZST
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- 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."
- >
- > Anyways, I find that most people who defend the paradoxes have at their
- > command laws of logic which I never even imagined could exist. I will
- > probably drop out of this discussion.
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- I would have to agree with both paragraphs. In regard to the first one,
- I asked my wife [very intelligent, BUT a medical doctor, so not well
- versed with hair splitting], or at least said to her:
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- "Jenny McDougall will never believe this sentence."
-
- to which she replied:
-
- "Which sentence?"
-
- :-)
-
- --
- Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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