Re: Concept_sitting

Mark,

It occurred to me this morning that my point about non-referential statements
isn't trivial after all. Here are two statements that could easily occur
naturally, albeit not next to each other:

The next sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.

The sentences are not self-referential and, as I illustrated, could plausibly
occur "in the wild." Together, they hold the same basic paradox.

-- Paul



----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> >> (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

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