The Ancient Paradox We Still Can't Solve

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• BL

  @BlackthorneSoundandCinema · 2 years ago

  My perspective is that a paradox like this one simply highlights the fact that language can be used to create an empty image that is devoid of meaning. There are many combinations of words that also have no value, this one is just easier to recognize. It may be wise to think about that rather than spending time thinking about this specific specimen. Its only meaning is a warning.

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• JO

  @johnmalik7284 · 2 years ago

  Words are a pointer, not an independent existence.

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• CA

  @CasaBonita1018 · 1 year ago

  Gödel lurking behind every corner of our conscious experience and looming over our ability to make sense of

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• JA

  @JasonBlair · 2 years ago

  Queue up the Magritte painting of a pipe with the caption "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

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• AB

  @abdullahimusa9761 · 2 years ago

  Can you cover the different types of logics and how they relate to Aristotelian logic

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• HA

  @HaecSublimisVeritas · 2 years ago

  The second way is correct if you go full Aristotle. The liar's paradox cannot be true or false, because it is not a proposition. By reductio ad absurdem: Suppose that "This sentence is false." is a proposition. What is the predicate? "False". What is the subject? "This sentence". What does the subject supposit for? "This sentence is false". So now we have the subject "This sentence is false" and the same predicate "false". Now the subject supposits for a proposition, and we have to evaluate its truth by going back to step 1. This process repeats infinite times and is in principle impossible of terminating.

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• MR

  @MrTylerhenry8 · 2 years ago

  The interesting think about what Tarski devised is that there needs to be another level of philosphophy to talk about his philosophy and so on... infinite progress is just as bad as infinite regress in this situation. It never really gets resolved.

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• YO

  @YouknowMimisParplaveOr · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owDWSIIYD0A&amp;t=548">9:08</a> he was really killing us here.

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• MI

  @michaelthompson342 · 3 weeks ago

  I came to this presentation after reading about the Cretan liar in a Wycliffe biography. My head was exploding then and it’s still exploding!

• WH

  @whitb62 · 2 years ago

  Love this. Please keep making the analytical side of philosophy videos. They&apos;re excellent.

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• MR

  @MrPuff1026 · 2 years ago

  This sentence walked so Goedel could run

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• ZI

  @Zippy1940 · 2 years ago

  Natural language and formal language describe different worlds &nbsp;that contain different entities.

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