Re: The fallacy of strengthened liar's paradox.

On Dec 25, 6:01 am, David C. Ullrich <ullr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:11:50 -0800 (PST), Newberry

<newberr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let P be the sentence "This sentence is meaningless." Is it true or
false? [...]

This gives us the basic insight that all self-referential, paradoxical
sentences, including possibly Goedel's sentence, are probably
meaningless.

You're jumping a bit from one example to _all_ such sentences.

It is a bit conjecture.

But much more important: There's nothing _literally_ self-referetial
about "Godel's sentence" - your lovely anlysis is irrelevant there.
The sentence in question is just an ordinary assertion about positive
integers, with no problem whatever regarding what it means,
any more than there's a problem with "If n and m are even positive
integers then n + m is even."

One of those number is the Goedel number of the sentence ITSELF.

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