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>From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
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Subject: Re: Self-Reference and Paradox (was Re: Human intelligence...)
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Date: 19 Nov 92 13:58:10 GMT
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In article <1992Nov19.000227.9652@u.washington.edu>, petry@pythagoras.math.washington.edu (David Petry) writes:

|> The question is, how do you know that in the original context the subject
|> refers to the sentence itself?  The answer is that you have been taught
|> to "see" paradox.  Many, perhaps most, people that have not been taught
|> to see the paradox will ask the question "What sentence is being referred
|> to?" when they see the sentence "This sentence is false."

I simply do not believe this last claim since it does not conform to
my experience (gathered in part from seeing how innumerable undergraduates
respond to such examples).  Moreover, no one has any more trouble with
the referent of the subject in the pathological examples than in

	This sentence contains five words.

I have yet to encounter anyone who had difficulty understanding this.

|> Anyways, I find that most people who defend the paradoxes have at their
|> command laws of logic which I never even imagined could exist.

Yeah, right.

|> I will
|> probably drop out of this discussion.

Okay.
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