Peter_de_Blanc 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: Peter_de_Blanc 30 May 2009 06:38:47PM 1 point [-]

"This statement is false" doesn't refer to anything; it's its own little world, and consequently truth has no meaning.

What about statements that refer both to themselves and to things in our world, such as "either this sentence is false, or Psychohistorian owes Peter de Blanc $50"?