Nisan comments on The best 15 words - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 03 October 2013 09:09:46PM *  28 points [-]

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (or works of Quine):

"is false when preceded by its quotation" is false when preceded by its quotation.

Comment author: Stabilizer 03 October 2013 09:23:26PM 3 points [-]

I hate you.

Comment author: mfb 06 October 2013 02:26:05PM 0 points [-]

Hmm, the whole statement is ' "is false when preceded by its quotation" is false when preceded by its quotation.', and it is not preceded by its quotation.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 October 2013 05:49:53AM 0 points [-]

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.