Re: Liar's Paradox

On Apr 3, 9:43 am, stevendaryl3...@xxxxxxxxx (Daryl McCullough) wrote:
Marshall says...

I may just be overly pragmatic in my thinking, but I really
don't see the value to the logician of riddles.
Natural language has ambiguous, nondeterministic,
context-sensitive semantics by design and intent.

The Liar Paradox doesn't have anything specifically to do with
natural language.

Do you see your reply as having some relevance to what
I wrote? I cannot see any. If you did not intend any, no
problem, but I thought I'd check.


Marshall
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