Quote: many ordinary assertions about truth are liable to the liar's paradox if empirical facts are extremely unfavorable

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many, probably most, of our ordinary assertions about … Consider the ordinary statement, bade by Jones: (1) … with (1), not is it ill-formed. Ordinarily the … assessment of each for truth or falsity. Suppose, … for one problematic case, (2) Everything Jones says … alternatively, that all his Watergate-related assertions except perhaps … paradoxical: they are true if and only if … Yet no syntactic or semantic feature of (1) … Whether such assumptions hold depends on the empirical …   Google-1   Google-2

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