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- Subject: Re: Liar paradox
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.012750.18659@husc3.harvard.edu>
- From: goldfarb@husc4.harvard.edu (Warren Goldfarb)
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:27:49 EST
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- In article <1992Dec16.191006.16896@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> leemike@eecg.toronto.edu (Michael Lee) writes:
- >There is a collection of essays by Quine called `Paradoxes and Other
- >Essays' which deals with the above paradox (nonparadox), with a quote
- >by St. Paul followed by a blurb by Quine. The first essay deals with
- >antimonies in clear expository manner.
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- The collection by Quine is titled "The Ways of Paradox"; the essay in
- question is eponymous. The title is a reference to Gilbert and Sullivan's
- "Pirates of Penzance": "How quaint the ways of paradox/ At common sense
- they gaily mock".
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- Warren Goldfarb
- Department of Philosophy
- Harvard University
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