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Single Idea 9137
[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / a. The Liar paradox
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Full Idea
The old objection to the ban on self-reference is that it is too broad; it bans innocent sentences such as 'This very sentence is in English'.
Gist of Idea
Banning self-reference would outlaw 'This very sentence is in English'
Source
Roy Sorensen (Vagueness and Contradiction [2001], 11.1)
Book Ref
Sorensen,Roy: 'Vagueness and Contradiction' [OUP 2004], p.168
A Reaction
Tricky. What is the sigificant difference between 'this sentence is in English' and 'this sentence is a lie'? The first concerns context and is partly metalinguistic. The second concerns semantics and truth. Concept and content..
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[problem when liars refer to themselves]:
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6006
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If you say truly that you are lying, you are lying
[Eubulides, by Dancy,R]
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9464
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One of their own prophets said that Cretans are always liars
[Anon (Titus)]
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21564
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Vicious Circle: what involves ALL must not be one of those ALL
[Russell]
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21567
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'All judgements made by Epimenedes are true' needs the judgements to be of the same type
[Russell]
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19187
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The Liar makes us assert a false sentence, so it must be taken seriously
[Tarski]
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8940
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Tarski avoids the Liar Paradox, because truth cannot be asserted within the object language
[Tarski, by Fisher]
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6569
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'This sentence is false' sends us in a looping search for its proposition
[Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]
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21692
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If we write it as '"this sentence is false" is false', there is no paradox
[Quine]
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14964
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The Liar reappears, even if one insists on propositions instead of sentences
[Gupta]
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14969
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Strengthened Liar: either this sentence is neither-true-nor-false, or it is not true
[Gupta]
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13507
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The machinery used to solve the Liar can be rejigged to produce a new Liar
[Hart,WD]
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9138
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An infinite series of sentences asserting falsehood produces the paradox without self-reference
[Yablo, by Sorensen]
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15428
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The Liar seems like a truth-value 'gap', but dialethists see it as a 'glut'
[Burgess]
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13371
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If you know that a sentence is not one of the known sentences, you know its truth
[Priest,G]
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13372
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There are Liar Pairs, and Liar Chains, which fit the same pattern as the basic Liar
[Priest,G]
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11014
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Self-reference paradoxes seem to arise only when falsity is involved
[Read]
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9137
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Banning self-reference would outlaw 'This very sentence is in English'
[Sorensen]
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15355
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Strengthened Liar: 'this sentence is not true in any context' - in no context can this be evaluated
[Horsten]
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16336
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The liar paradox applies truth to a negated truth (but the conditional will serve equally)
[Halbach]
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