Re: Concept_sitting

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
>
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