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Thanks - that was very helpful. So the present King of France's being bald, and his not being bald, presuppose there being a present King of France. t...

This was in my in tray this morning: What Colour Are Numbers?

That, in a nutshell, is Kripke's response. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-axiomatic/#KripTheo

Hmmm.

Try: This sentence is not about itself. This sentence is not a sentence. And lest you think the problem is "not", This sentence is that sentence.

OK: This sentence is true. This sentence is about itself. This sentence is a sentence. This sentence is not that sentence. Need I go on?

Hey, here's a plan: hammer the Mods whatever they do, so they quit, and we can write any old shite we like. That'll fix things.

Ah. You lost me in referring to a reference to a reference to another reply... it wasn't so obvious. So what do we conclude here? Which statement and ...

As was pointed out before, not all self-referential sentences are problematic: This sentence has five words Hence, self-reference is not the whole of ...

Where did you say "presupposition"?

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In China, folk wear face masks to protect others. In 'merica, folk wear face masks to protect themselves.

Well, no; there is not a something it is like to have not been born.

= Yep. Poor technique leading to delusional musings.

That's wrong. There may be impossibilities that have not been established.

A statement can have either truth value assigned to it; A statement becomes an assertion when someone asserts that it is true. Sentences include quest...

"This statement is false" and "This statement is true yet unprovable" are both self-referential. Beyond that, there's not much in common.

The Democrats appear to have adopted much of Sander's rhetoric; I doubt it will translate into actual policy. But ever hopeful.

I had this thread in mind at the time: Causality, Determination and such stuff. There are a few links therein that might be interesting.

Indeed; any two of Meta's posts on how 1 is not equal to 0.999... would provide an excellent example.

Irony not a thing here, then.

Well, I did join the conversation for awhile. Indeed my previously rejected invitation for you to join a debate with me remains open. What remains obv...

Perhaps; but consider, my being an atheist makes no difference to the shite you and Frank have swapped over the last few days. I consider it a brillia...

The conversation is pathetic. As evidenced by the very post to which this is a reply. Neither of you has the sense ot back off in the face of the othe...

This thread is embarrassing, not just for @"3017amen" and for @"Frank Apisa", but for the forums that spawned it.

Good point.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shrehan_Lynch/publication/340777978/figure/fig1/AS:882312354988036@1587371066584/The-difference-between-the-terms...

http://www.theinclusionsolution.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/equality-blog.png

Your height is something over which you have some control? OR are you avoiding something?

n Never understood his popularity. Three-chord songs wth tedious, tendentious lyrics.

yeah, forth graders are so cool. Shame they grow up.

Norway? Or Sweden? Oh, New Zealand! Of course!

You don’t have to be here.

@"Frank Apisa", the most adamant of agnostics! Certain in his indecision!

For you, repeatedly asserting "all truths are descriptions" without any suporting argument counts as philosophical thinking?

What?

:groan:

Here they are: https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/comments/7265/asif Personal attacks, repetition, poor grammar, weird obsession with descriptions...

Teleological Notions in Biology That is, you will be pushing against recent thinking.

Evolution has no teleology.

It would be interesting to compare it to Kripke's truth, which renders the liar paradox neutral by making it underivable.

Yeah, we don't want no people what know things tellin' us what to do.

How does Scharp use these to solve the paradox?

No, I definitely did not mean vague.

No. I chose quite deliberately. Uncanny has the link to knowing that I wanted.

A logician saves the life of a tiny space alien. The alien is very grateful and, since she's omniscient, offers the following reward: she offers to an...

You may have missed my point. So I'll rephrase: Natural languages curls over on itself. That seems to me to be a good thing. We can formulate the liar...

I agree. But my own observation, especially over the last ten years or so, is that considerable progress has been made by identifying the intersection...

Why should a natural language be consistent? Natural languages include nonsense. That seems to me to be a good thing. We can formulate the liar parado...

Hrmphh. God as the answer to any unanswered question. Inspiring only pathos.