[FOM] "This sentence is true"

[Matt Insall]

schiphol at altern.org wrote:

In a former message, I wrote:


>Doesn't this amount to forbid all self-referential
>sentences?


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About "This sentence is true", what I can say is that asigning a truth value
to it does not lead to any further complication. This is not true of the
Liar. It would be nice for a solution to the Liar to save this difference.



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Just forbid liars.



Matt Insall
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Missouri - Rolla
Rolla MO 65409-0020

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