The Lessons of the Liar
Theory and Decision 11 (1):55-70 (1979)
| Abstract | The paper argues that the liar paradox teaches us these lessons about English. First, the paradox-yielding sentence is a sentence of English that is neither true nor false in English. Second, there is no English name for any such thing as a set of all and only true sentences of English. Third, ‘is true in English’ does not satisfy the axiom of comprehension. | |||||||||
| Keywords | liar paradox axiom of comprehension | |||||||||
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