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>From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.logic
Subject: Re: Self-Reference and Paradox (was Re: Human intelligence...)
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Date: 22 Nov 92 13:02:10 GMT
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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."
> 
> Anyways, I find that most people who defend the paradoxes have at their
> command laws of logic which I never even imagined could exist.  I will
> probably drop out of this discussion.

I would have to agree with both paragraphs. In regard to the first one, 
I asked my wife [very intelligent, BUT a medical doctor, so not well 
versed with hair splitting], or at least said to her:

"Jenny McDougall will never believe this sentence."

to which she replied:

"Which sentence?"

:-)

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  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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