Thursday, 27 August 2015
Saul Kripke’s Self-referential Sentence
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“ Let 'Jack' be a name of the sentience 'Jack is short', and we have a sentence that says of itself that it is short....
Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Wittgenstein's Generalisations About Generalisations
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Firstly here's a quote from the philosopher Gilbert Ryle in which he talks about Wittgenstein’s general distaste for generalisati...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Heterological & Homological Metalinguistic Statements
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Various statements can taken as being either homological or heterological in nature. A heterological predicate, statement or senten...
Monday, 24 August 2015
Truth: Its Metaphysics, Epistemology and Semantics
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We can say that epistemology essentially concerns itself with two things: truth and our “relationship to truth”. Many philosophers, ...
Thursday, 20 August 2015
A Coherent Madman and His Little Self-referential Problem
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The madman or religious maniac can be entirely coherent and systematic yet also be completely divorced from the world. His system of ...
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