Self-Reference – Lesson 5
Following the objections and questions about Aharoni’s method that were brought up in the lesson, another idea –
In algebraic terms, he defines detachment as a transformation that can be applied to the field of claims. The question is whether there are also claims that include self-reference (according to his method) that are idempotent with respect to the detachment transformation – if there are any, they are probably necessarily philosophical claims (since detachment does not help in their case, and they contain self-reference). For example, one can think of something like “Does the world exist as it is perceived by the senses of all beings in the world?” It is impossible to perform an effective detachment because the group reference here includes everyone to whom the claim can be “disconnected.”
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