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The truth-functional hypothesis does not imply the liar’s paradox [PDF]
Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 The truth-functional hypothesis states that indicative conditional sentences and the material implication have the same truth conditions. Haze (2011) has rejected this hypothesis.
Matheus Martins Silva
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A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes, Incompleteness and Fixed Points [PDF]
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 2003 AbstractFollowing F. William Lawvere, we show that many self-referential paradoxes, incompleteness theorems and fixed point theorems fall out of the same simple scheme. We demonstrate these similarities by showing how this simple scheme encompasses the semantic paradoxes, and how they arise as diagonal arguments and fixed point theorems in logic ...
Yanofsky, Noson S.
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Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2021 The liar paradox is an ancient logical paradox (revisited by modern thinkers) which links truth with falsehood and falsehood with truth, and is based on a self-referential mechanism.
Alessandro Di Caro
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Knowing the Unknown: The Paradox of “The Absolute Unknown” From Fakhr al-Din al-Razi to Tashkoprizada [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2020 A paradox that originated from Plato’s Meno and that perpetuated throughout the classical period of the history of Islamic philosophy within the same structure seems to have been reconstructed by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210), and hence gained a new
Harun Kuşlu
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« Lo, here I lie » : les jeux du paradoxe chez Donne
Etudes Epistémè, 2021 : Although Donne’s works hardly ever allude to Early Modern games, they are far from being play-free. In them, however, play takes on a poetic guise. This article first examines the context in which Donne started to write, in the 1590s.
Guillaume Fourcade
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Literature as transitional object. Between omnipotence and the relinquishing of magic investment
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 Donald Winnicott’s model of the tolerance for paradox offers a new perspective on Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces of literature and on the fact that ambiguous reference in fiction does not result in its being perceived as meaningless.
Daniela Cârstea
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WITTGENSTEIN’S TRACTATUS 3.333 AND RUSSELL’S PARADOX; pp. 179–197 [PDF]
Trames, 2009 In his âTractatus logico-philosophicusâ, Ludwig Wittgenstein declares that he has solved Russellâs paradox. He presents the solution in a prima facie simple formula â(âΦ) : F(Φu) . Φu = Fuâ.
Urmas Sutrop
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Statement or Supramundanity? Making Sense of Śūraṃgama-Samādhi and Its Related Narratives
Religions, 2023 The aim of this paper is to provide a new interpretation for the term Śūraṃgama-samādhi, an important concept in the Mahāyāna literature, by proposing new exegeses of its primary and derivative meanings as they appear in the Śūraṃgamasamādhi-sūtra ...
Can Li
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Reciprocally-Coupled Gating: Strange Loops in Bioenergetics, Genetics, and Catalysis
Biomolecules, 2021 Bioenergetics, genetic coding, and catalysis are all difficult to imagine emerging without pre-existing historical context. That context is often posed as a “Chicken and Egg” problem; its resolution is concisely described by de Grasse Tyson: “The egg was
Charles W. Carter, Peter R. Wills
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Is Russell's vicious circle principle false or meaningless? [PDF]
, 1979 P. Vardy asserts the thesis that the vicious circle principle has the same structure as Russell's paradox. But structure is not the thing itself. It is the thing objectivated from the wiewpoint of a mathematician.
Fleischhacker, L.E.
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