Re: Liar paradox, one more time

From: >parr\(*> (gniKyruaL_at_tenretnitb.moc)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:52:25 +0000 (UTC)

"Acid Pooh" <poohonlsd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d7ba1f79.0407280302.50646fa2@posting.google.com...
| This gives me an idea. What if we
| appeal to Wittgenstein here?
| Philosophical Investigations, Section
| 43: "For a large class of
| cases--though not all--in which we
| use the word "meaning" it can be
| defined thus: The meaning of a word
| [phrase, sentence] is its use in
| language."
|
| It's kind of hard to reverse engineer
| and argument out of that, but my
| (possibly naive) idea is that there
| is no context in which the
| sentence "This sentence is false"
| actually means what we intuitively
| think it does. Things get _really_
| complicated when you think about
| what it would take to prove that, but
| I have a hunch that Wittgenstein
| supplied us with the machinery to
| deal with this relatively easily (as
| compared to other ways of dealing
| with it, anyway)

For practical purposes, you are right.

However, the value of analysing simple and obvious paradoxes is that
it prepares our minds, and allows us to develop tools, so we can
better deal with complex paradoxes involving many facts, many
assertion and many relationships.

[This is also an answer to your next post (_confuse_) in this
thread.] 

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