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About two Objections to Cook’s Proposal

open access: yesAnálisis Filosófico, 2012
The main thesis of this work is as follows: there are versions of Yablo’s paradox that, if Cook is right about the non-circular character of his version of it, are truly paradoxical and genuinely non-circular, and Cook’s version of Yablo’s paradox is one
Federico Matías Pailos
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Why Can the Brain (and Not a Computer) Make Sense of the Liar Paradox?

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Ordinary computing machines prohibit self-reference because it leads to logical inconsistencies and undecidability. In contrast, the human mind can understand self-referential statements without necessitating physically impossible brain states.
Patrick Fraser   +3 more
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Dialetheists’ Lies About the Liar

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2018
Liar-like paradoxes are typically arguments that, by using very intuitive resources of natural language, end up in contradiction. Consistent solutions to those paradoxes usually have difficulties either because they restrict the expressive power of the ...
Jonas R. B. Arenhart, Ederson S. Melo
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The Liar Paradox in Plato [PDF]

open access: yesMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2015
Although most scholars trace the Liar Paradox to Plato’s contemporary, Eubulides, the paper argues that Plato builds something very like the Liar Paradox into the very structure of his dialogues with significant consequences for understanding his views ...
Richard McDonough
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Truths ancient and modern

open access: yesManuscrito, 2011
The paper presents a comparison of the theories of truth, and the solutions of the liar paradox, proposed by Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290-1349), Jean Buridan (c. 1295-1358), and Alfred Tarski (1901-1983).
David Miller
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Paradoks kłamcy (Liar Paradox) [PDF]

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2011
The aim of the article is to determine what role the liar sentence plays in our language. On the one hand, it seems to be well formed formula, and on the other, it does not seem to have any clear sense.
Jan Wawrzyniak
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Circularity is Still Scary

open access: yesAnálisis Filosófico, 2012
Cook (forthcoming) presents a paradox which he says is not circular. I see no reasons to doubt the non-circularity claim, but I do have some concerns regarding its paradoxicality.
Paula Teijeiro
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DENYING THE PROBLEM. DEFLATIONISTS AND THE LIAR PARADOX

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2018
Deflationary theories of truth had two different types of responses to the Liar. A first class of deflationists considers that this paradox does not represent a problem for their theories.
Paula-Pompilia TOMI
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Hisaki Hashi: Das Paradoxon in der Philosophie – Zum Aufbau der humanistischen Welt

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2020
Hashi Hisaki, the author of this interesting book, is founder of the Association for Comparative Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Education (http://kophil-interdis.at/wb/pages/home.php).
Jana S. Rošker
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Intuitionism and the liar paradox

open access: yesAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic, 2012
The concept of informal mathematical proof considered in intuitionism is apparently vulnerable to a version of the liar paradox. However, a careful reevaluation of this concept reveals a subtle error whose correction blocks the contradiction. This leads to a general resolution of the classical semantic paradoxes.
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