Nick_Tarleton comments on Anime Explains the Epimenides Paradox - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2009 09:12PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 28 May 2009 12:45:25AM 1 point [-]

This is also how I've always thought about self-referential statements; is there a name for this position? Is it even a position?

Comment author: Psychohistorian 28 May 2009 12:56:29AM 0 points [-]

Modal logic, from what I remember of it, deals with "worlds" of sorts, so it might be possible to express it with modal logic; I don't remember well enough, and I certainly don't recall this being a named position. It does seem like a position, though.