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Self-reference

שו”תCategory: philosophySelf-reference
asked 4 years ago

How would you define the following sentence:
“This sentence does not refer to itself.”
Clearly there is self-reference here, but is there also a paradox here?


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
No. It’s just a false statement and that’s it. A paradox is an endless loop of true-false-true-false…

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