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4:15 pm A Dynamic Solution to the Liar Paradox – Martin Pleitz (Muenster) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3309
A Dynamic Solution to the Liar Paradox – Martin Pleitz (Muenster) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 3309
Feb 26 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
The Liar paradox arises when we combine the assumption that a sentence can refer to itself with our naïve notion of truth and apply our unrevised logic. Most current approaches to the Liar paradox focus on revising our notion of truth and logic because nowadays almost everyone is convinced that there are self-referential sentences. I will argue against this conviction. My argument starts from observations about the metaphysics of expressions: A meaningful expression is based[...]