Re: logical paradoxes

From: JXStern (JXSternChangeX2R_at_gte.net)
Date: 08/17/04


Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:55:39 GMT

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:50:12 +0100, "Jeffrey Ketland"
<ketland@ketland.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>I used to be sympathetic to the idea that the liar sentence fails to express
>a proposition. But now I'm even more sympathetic to the idea that there is
>no univocal notion of truth---there is only truth relative to a fixed
>interpretation. Of course, natural language appears to contains a univocal
>notion of truth ....

... but, do you see natural language commiting itself to fixed
interpretation?

Josh



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