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Does the sentence “This sentence is unprovable” lead to the Liar Paradox?
Does the sentence “This sentence is unprovable” lead to the Liar Paradox?
I ask because of the following:
Suppose the following is true: For all X, if X is unprovable then X is false.
Then we would ...
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The gap between an assertion's being true and things being as they are asserted to be
As I was reading the SEP entry on insolubilia like the liar-sentence paradox, I ended up reading this intriguing claim:
Sometime between roughly 1330 and 1335, the English Benedictine Roger Swyneshed ...
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Did Eubulides discuss the paradox of the Liar?
It is repeated here and there that Eubulides of Miletus, a contemporary of Aristotle, said:
A man says that he is lying. Is what he says true or false?
Yet, I could not find any reference to any ...
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Is, "This sentence is made false/bears falsehood," interchangeable with, "This sentence has no truthmaker/is not a truthbearer"?
Truthmaker theory is a position in alethology such that:
The notion of a truthmaker cannot ultimately be understood in isolation from the notion of what it makes true, a truthbearer. This is ...
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If, "This sentence is false or meaningless," is non-prime, does it still pose the same revenge threat or a different one?
A non-prime disjunction is one that is true even if none of its disjuncts are; I've seen them come up at least in impossible-worlds talk, but now I'm wondering whether the basic "revenge"1 ...
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If, "This sentence is demi-negated," doesn't make any sense, does that undermine the concept of demi-negation?
The inspiration for this question is an essay that starts with analysis of the "modal liar" sentence, to wit:
This sentence might not be true.
It seems possible to analyze said sentence ...
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The assumption that sentences do not change their content across occasions of use, i.e., that they display no context-dependence, leads to paradoxes? [closed]
To be brief , consider the following meaningful declarative sentence:
(1): (1) is false
Tautology1 : The predicate “is false” in (1) has its usual meaning
OR it has a meaning in (1) that makes (1) ...
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Does replacing "this" -> "the" in the liar sentence keep the same referent?
Imagine two sentences printed in a car with 1 airbag:
a) This airbag is harmful to young occupants
b) The airbag is harmful to young occupants
They have the same referent, the airbag.
I'm asking if a ...
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Is this a new solution to the liar's paradox?
This question may be closed down due to confusing (see comments section)
Question: Is this a new/valid solution to the famous liar's paradox? Or does it already exist?
Consider the following ...
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