Re: Liar's Paradox

Marshall says...

On Apr 3, 9:29 am, stevendaryl3...@xxxxxxxxx (Daryl McCullough) wrote:
Marshall says...

On Apr 3, 8:38 am, stevendaryl3...@xxxxxxxxx (Daryl McCullough) wrote:
It doesn't have anything to do with natural language,
specifically. It has to do with the meaning of the
predicate "true".

I have no idea what you're driving at.

That the Liar Paradox has nothing to do with natural language,
specifically.

Okay, perhaps I wasn't explicit enough with my original reply.
My reaction to your statement, "The Liar Paradox has nothing to
do with natural language" is yes, the same issue shows up in
other contexts besides natural language ones, which can be
seen by translating Liar's from its natural language form into a
formal language. However I don't understand *why* you're saying
this particular sentence at this point.

Because you said

Meh. It requires orders of magnitude more machinery to
formalize than the previous ones, and what would be the
lesson learned in doing so? That trying to model natural
language formally is a bad idea?

That *seems* to be implying that there is a connection
between understanding the Liar Paradox and modeling
natural language formally.

Well, a *sentence* is neither equal to the boolean
value true nor is it equal to the boolean value false.
So how does it make any sense to call a statement
true or false?

Um, I'm guessing you're asking leading questions as
part of some sort of pedagogical technique.

Look, you made a post about the Liar Paradox. I don't
think that your post made very much sense. But if you're
not interested in defending it, I'll let it drop.

--
Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY

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