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Jaydison

['Member']Joined: August 21, 2016 at 08:23Last active: August 30, 2017 at 13:091 discussions14 comments

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
-Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 7, L. Wittgenstein

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Liar's Paradox

August 21, 2016 at 08:32 85 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

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-@"TheMadFool" Makes sense.
May 12, 2017 at 14:31
I do believe that there are another player in this connection. I do agree that Mathematics is a science used to deduce conclusions and axioms which do...
May 12, 2017 at 14:27
Apparently, self-reference is inevitable, meaning, that there is nothing wrong with it. (proven as the diagonal lemma or fixed-point lemma)
April 20, 2017 at 01:59
It implies that there something wrong on how we do mathematics.
April 20, 2017 at 01:58
'This sentence' is a phrase (not a proposition) that refers to the sentence 'This sentence is false'. Thus, we would get a sentences like ''This sente...
April 20, 2017 at 01:50
Saul Kripke (1975) suggested a solution to the problem by introducing a third-value "undefined", still, it is still problematic (see "strengthened lia...
April 20, 2017 at 01:35
I do believe that by saying "I am lying", what you really mean is "What I have just said is a lie". There is a context in that certain conversation th...
August 22, 2016 at 06:15
They said "no" :)
August 22, 2016 at 06:06
From what I know and read, a proposition is a statement or sentence that expresses an agreement or disagreement of its facts. Or to simply put it, a s...
August 22, 2016 at 06:04
I do agree. There is a complication alone on its subject. By looking at the earlier form of that paradox " I am lying". It refers to itself, thus beco...
August 22, 2016 at 05:50
Also, even if I am right that "is false" is a truth-predicate and "This sentence" is stated rather differently. There is still this problem of self re...
August 21, 2016 at 15:20
On that quoted quote, It seems that I have not clarified that I am talking to statements in general and I do apologize. On the other hand, it is wrong...
August 21, 2016 at 14:55
Thank you for clarifying my error. It seems that I am under illusion that "This sentence is not true" is a proposition as it already contains a truth-...
August 21, 2016 at 14:44
I am quite new to this paradox and as I see it, It is well stated proposition that is clear and so on. It is maybe the case that this proposition or r...
August 21, 2016 at 09:46