Re: Liar paradox, one more time

From: Paul Holbach (paulholbachSPAMBAN_at_freenet.de)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: 30 Jul 2004 12:30:59 -0700

> "Poker Joker" <Poker@wi.rr.com> wrote in message news:<
> YkiOc.56407$vN3.20520@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>...
> > "Paul Holbach" <paulholbachSPAMBAN@freenet.de> wrote in message
> > news:881c8779.0407291735.34ac845a@posting.google.com...

> > Would you mind revealing your definition of "semantically acceptable"?

> Let's just say that a sentence is semantically acceptable if its meaning
> is well understood.

For example, the sentence "This sentence is hungry" is semantically
incongruous, because sentences do not belong to the kind of things
that can feel hunger.
But "This sentence is not true" is not semantically incongruous,
because (assertoric) sentences are exactly the things that can be true
or false.

Regards
PH