"Is false when preceded by its quotation" is false when preceded by its quotation.
I feel stupid for this, but I can't quite wrap my head around it. Can somebody please ELI5? (I'm asking LW because it seems to have more than its fair share of math & logic whizzes.)
So first of all, a purely syntactic remark: this involves a rather unnatural construction, taking "X's quotation" to mean what you get by putting X in quotation marks. So far as I know, no one ever uses the word "quotation" in this way except when talking about Quine's construction (i.e., the thing we're talking about now). OK, let's proceed.
The version of this I've seen is slightly different (and avoids Creutzer's complaint):
..."yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotatio
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