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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
20 ideas
from Roy Sorensen
9119
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No attempt to deny bivalence has ever been accepted
[Sorensen]
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9116
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Vague words have hidden boundaries
[Sorensen]
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9118
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The colour bands of the spectrum arise from our biology; they do not exist in the physics
[Sorensen]
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9121
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Illusions are not a reason for skepticism, but a source of interesting scientific information
[Sorensen]
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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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9139
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If nothing exists, no truthmakers could make 'Nothing exists' true
[Sorensen]
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9140
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Which toothbrush is the truthmaker for 'buy one, get one free'?
[Sorensen]
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9122
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God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings
[Sorensen]
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9125
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Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away
[Sorensen]
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9124
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We are unable to perceive a nose (on the back of a mask) as concave
[Sorensen]
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9126
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Bayesians build near-certainty from lots of reasonably probable beliefs
[Sorensen]
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9128
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It is propositional attitudes which can be a priori, not the propositions themselves
[Sorensen]
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9130
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Attributing apriority to a proposition is attributing a cognitive ability to someone
[Sorensen]
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9129
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I can buy any litre of water, but not every litre of water
[Sorensen]
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9131
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Two long understandable sentences can have an unintelligible conjunction
[Sorensen]
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9132
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An offer of 'free coffee or juice' could slowly shift from exclusive 'or' to inclusive 'or'
[Sorensen]
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9133
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Propositions are what settle problems of ambiguity in sentences
[Sorensen]
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9134
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The negation of a meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful
[Sorensen]
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9135
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We now see that generalizations use variables rather than abstract entities
[Sorensen]
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9136
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The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false
[Sorensen]
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