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Re: Concept_sitting

From:Erbrice <erbrice@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 22:50
right, fair point.
may be there is no way to be paradoxal in semantic.

Le 19 janv. 09 à 22:29, Mark J. Reed a écrit :

> Fair point. But, as you said, a nit - it clarifies some detail > without changing the nature of the situation. > > > > On 1/19/09, Paul Kershaw <ptkershaw@...> wrote: >>> (Proponents of those theories would simply say that no speaker would >>> ever "naturally emit" a sentence like "This sentence is false", >>> so it >>> doesn't count.) >>> >>> -- >>> Mark J. Reed >> >> Nit: I can easily imagine scenarios in which a native English >> speaker would >> naturally produce the sentence "This sentence is false," but "this >> sentence" >> wouldn't be self-referential, and hence the sentence wouldn't be >> paradoxical >> (e.g., someone's reading a news article aloud and pauses after a >> sentence to >> proclaim it false). >> >> -- Paul >> > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>