Re: The set of all JOKES.....

On Feb 26, 3:30 pm, "LauLuna" <laureanol...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 24, 6:13 pm, "charlesweh...@xxxxxxxxxxx"

<charlesweh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is an illusion. 'Itself' is a pronoun and is in the place of a
noun, and the noun is in this context precisely 'J'.

That is the joke. The word "itself" does not of itself NEED to be used
in place of a noun. It is not rigidly, and for all time, condemned to
be a pronoun. As a WORD, and nothing but a word, it is a NOUN.

Quite wrong. " "itself" " is a name for "itself" and thus a noun in
meta-language, but "itself" is not a noun. You can think of it as a
sequence of letters but then it is not noun either.

Regards

And this is why your pun does not work:

'this is the set of all jokes that does contain itself' refers by
means of 'itself' to the set and not to the word 'itself'. So, it
cannot claim to be saying that it contains the word 'itself'.

Unless it's a quite joke.

.

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