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Full Idea
If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money then time is money then time is money then if time is money then time is money.
Gist of Idea
If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money...
Source
Willard Quine (Truth by Convention [1935], p.95)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ways of Paradox and other essays' [Harvard 1976], p.95
A Reaction
Quine offers this with no hint of a smile. I reproduce it for the benefit of people who hate analytic philosophy, and get tired of continental philosophy being attacked for its obscurity.
| 20296 | Logic needs general conventions, but that needs logic to apply them to individual cases [Quine, by Rey] |
| 8998 | Claims that logic and mathematics are conventional are either empty, uninteresting, or false [Quine] |
| 8999 | Logic isn't conventional, because logic is needed to infer logic from conventions [Quine] |
| 9000 | If a convention cannot be communicated until after its adoption, what is its role? [Quine] |
| 10064 | Quine quickly dismisses If-thenism [Quine, by Musgrave] |
| 8993 | If mathematics follows from definitions, then it is conventional, and part of logic [Quine] |
| 8994 | If analytic geometry identifies figures with arithmetical relations, logicism can include geometry [Quine] |
| 8995 | Definition by words is determinate but relative; fixing contexts could make it absolute [Quine] |
| 8996 | If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money... [Quine] |
| 8997 | There are four different possible conventional accounts of geometry [Quine] |