Re: Liar paradox, one more time

From: Poker Joker (Poker_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:30:36 GMT

"Paul Holbach" <paulholbachSPAMBAN@freenet.de> wrote in message
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> > "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; Almost everyone who would be expected to receive
> > the message would gather the same meaning. With regards to the
> > following sentence: "This sentence is not true." What meaning do you
> > gather?
>
> The meaning I gather is that the sentence "This sentence is not true"
> says of itself that it is not true.

So you gather nothing other than the words. That's what your
telling me. You said the sentence means the words in it. I normally
can express meaning beyond the given words in a seentence, but
I don't blame you if you can't.

> > Do you think it is the same meaning I gather?
>
> I beg your pardon, but I happen to be incapable of scanning your mind
> telepathically.

So you are incabable of reasoning out what I might think? Note that
I didn't ask you what I think. I asked you about something you thought.
Is your answer as far as your thoughts can go?

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