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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Premises of "objectivism?"
- In-Reply-To: solan@smaug.uio.no's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:09:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.93Jan21213301@bast.sics.se>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <TORKEL.93Jan20192830@bast.sics.se> <1993Jan21.144005.26462@nynexst.com>
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- <1993Jan21.200916.26386@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:33:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.200916.26386@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smaug.uio.no
- (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
-
- >Whether A has meaning or not enter into it when you demand that
-
- You misunderstand my comment. Meaning does not enter into the definition
- of the sentence A. The question whether A is a true sentence in English.
- naturally involves meaning.
-
- >The sentence is not meaningless because it is paradoxical, but because
- >it is not constructive, i.e. built from elements already possessing
- >meaning.
-
- This is a different suggestion from that of Baruch, and also one that
- may be taken as a starting point for a consideration of the paradoxes. Again
- it is inadequate as it stands.
-