What a nutty analogy! "This house is tall" doesn't mention a number of words. "This sentence has five word" does mention a number of words. RussellA w...
We infer that "This sentence" refers to "This sentence has five words" by observing that "This sentence" occurs within "This sentence has five words" ...
RussellA pinions his claiims about his subject on Tarski's schema, but he gets even that wrong! (See a thread many months ago about Tarski and the cor...
"This sentence" refers to "this sentence has five words". "This sentence" refers to the sentence in which "this sentence" is the noun. That is the nat...
No argument has been sustained that there is such a problem. For sake of continuity with the thread, I'll use: This sentence has five words. Yes, plea...
So you assert. Moreover, I don't know what you mean by a sentence "wanting" to say something. Meanwhile, a counterargument has been given, and that co...
He's been refuted at every point in every detail. "This sentence has fifty words" does not seem to be a paradox. That's not what has been at issue. Ra...
Why has it taken nine pages for RussellA still to still stick with his refuted arguments for his claim: "If "this sentence" is referring to "this sent...
The barber sentence is not just invalid, it is logically false. Wow! How can someone so ignorantly miss the point! The barber paradox doesn't at all r...
Is that a joke? To shave is to cut hair from the skin. There is no requirement of an ideal of cleanliness or that a face is involved. A barber is some...
My context here, unless mentioned otherwise, is ordinary mathematics, which is classical mathematics as found in calculus for the sciences, which is a...
You should stop right there. You continue to blatantly assert the same confusion. You should go back and actually read the explanation that has been g...
A neat review: @"RussellA" offers three options for "This string has five words": (1) "This string" refers to "This string". (2) "This string" refers ...
The song that is titled "Your Song" has the lyric: This is the song. It may be quite simple. "This" refers to the song itself, which is the song that ...
Prediction: @"RussellA" will reply by (1) making yet another bizarrely false and stupid extension of his already existing bizarrely false and stupid a...
@"RussellA" proffers the possibility that: "This sentence has five words" is true if and only if this sentence has five words. But that is wrong and s...
You are again repeating your previously refuted arguments, as you skip right past the substance of the refutations. And then you argue yet again by me...
That is one of the most bizarre arguments I've ever heard. "New York is in France" is true if and only if New York is in France. "New York is in Franc...
In ordinary mathematics, from axioms we define 'is a real number' and we prove that there is a set whose members are all and only the real numbers. An...
Still would like to know why you ask "How can "London" be a city?" when no one has said that "London" is a city. Wait, I think I do know why. You stil...
"This sentence has five words" is the sentence in question. It is true if and only if "This sentence has five words" has five words. "This sentence" r...
You think Mark Twain was someone other Samuel Clemens? Both. "This string has five words" was named "The Pentastring", and "This string has five words...
You said that this is okay: "The Pentastring" is a name for the expression "This string has five words" You say you get lost at: The Pentastring is "T...
It's meaningful and true. "this sentence" is a phrase. It is the same as itself. It's meaningful and true. "this sentence has five words" is a phrase....
Why do you ignore what is actually posted? When I first introduced the term "The Pentastring", I used it as a name not an adjective. I said that The P...
That's your claim, which you try to support with arguments that have been shown to be specious. No expression can. "This sentence" refers to "This sen...
I said that it seems to me that there are self-referring expressions that are meaningful but that I'm open to be being convinced otherwise and that I'...
To isolate the key point: The Pentastring is "This string has five words." The expression "The Pentastring" refers to the expression "This string has ...
There is no conflict with what I wrote previously. Again, as I pointed out: An expression, such as the expression "Big Ben" refers to the thing Big Be...
The crank still hasn't corrected his claim that platonism is the view that abstractions are objects, despite the fact that he has been given correctiv...
"The Pentastring has five words" doesn't have the word 'this' so perhaps it seems not self-referential in the way of "This string has five words". But...
RussellA: Your posts are runaway trains of confusions. Maybe I can catch up later. But for now: Notice that there you left out that the Pentastring is...
I said it is false; I didn't say it is ungrammatical. (1) Just to be clear, the example I gave was not: "London" is "a city" It was: "London" is a cit...
Just to be clear: I haven't said that I deny that all self-referential sentences are meaningless. Rather, I only suspect that it is not the case that ...
I was not a person who objected to defining falsum as 'B & ~B'. There are some distinctions to be made however. In the context of my post, falsum is a...
They are different. One is an inference of B from {A -> B, A}. The other is an inference of B from {~A v B, A} However, A -> B and ~A v B are equivale...
We can define a sentential constant 'f' (read as 'falsum'): s be the first sentential constant: f <-> (s & ~s) That is not "gibberish". Moreover, in s...
A sentence S is invalid if and only if there is an interpretation in which the sentence is false. Not "magically". If 'A' and 'C' are meta-variables r...
What does "conditionals are conditional" mean? I don't know what the poster has in mind, but, of course, with A -> (B & ~B), the consequent is not con...
Considering in context of much of everyday discourse: (1) "If Smith wins the election, then there will be a recession." (P -> Q in ordinary symbolic l...
What are 'B' and 'C'? If 'B' and 'C' are atomic sentences, then (B?¬B) and (B?C) are not equivalent. Buy if 'B' and 'C' meta-variables ranging over se...
What rule is used? What rule is used? What rule is used? Questions, questions, questions. RAA. RAA. RAA. Answers, answers, answers. Prove RAA from MT....
Leontiskos uses my name for a link to his own post. That deserves a link to my reply to his post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/92...
A nifty little editorial there, some about the subject, but a lot, pejoratively, about me. The sense in which 'mention' is used in context of the use-...
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