Re: logical paradoxes

From: patty (pattyNO_at_SPAMicyberspace.net)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:20:53 GMT

George Greene wrote:

[patty] writes:
> : > "P and If this sentence is true, then it is false;
> : > if the sentence is false, then it is true."
>
> That sentence is ungrammatical, or at best ambiguous.
> There is no clear referent for "the" sentence. If you mean
> "this sentence" AGAIN then SAY that.
>

Sorry i made a typo, it should read:

   "P; and if this sentence is true, then it is false;
    and if this sentence is false, then it is true."

Where P is any proposition - giving the traditional sentence a pay load.

So it is always the same sentence (designated by the indexical "this")
and when considered again it is still the same. What changes is an
agent's attitude towards it.

patty