X-Message-Number: 4119
From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #4111 - #4118
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 20:39:11 +1000 (EST)

Robert Ettinger writes,

>2. "THIS SENTENCE IS FALSE." This is perhaps the purest form of the Liar
>"paradox." Supposedly the sentence as a whole can be neither true nor false,
>although Aristotelian logic demands that it be one or the other--IF IT IS A
>"PROPOSITION." But obviously, the sentence is NOT a proposition; it is not
>meaningful, since there is no root referent. It is just a string of words
>with the illusion of meaning....I suspect very strongly that the
>"incompleteness" theorems have the same meaninglessness. 

That silly old Bertrand Russell. If only he'd had Robert Ettinger's help,
the Principia would have been polished off in no time ...

Pete.


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