tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631035637795172582.post3196620082056831177..comments2023-01-24T10:06:57.212-08:00Comments on (Blog&~Blog): Cats and ContradictionsBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702722560438833244noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631035637795172582.post-49700726051180052492008-07-30T10:45:00.000-07:002008-07-30T10:45:00.000-07:00OK, thanks for that. For clarity, I've edited both...OK, thanks for that. For clarity, I've edited both the original and the blog quote to 'most of what we want to say.'<BR/><BR/>The idea is that any rules that prevent the paradoxical information from being expressed might be lax enough to allow enough discourse about truth (in the Tarski case) or cats (in my somewhat fanciful example) to go on as usual, but that to get to the source of the problem generating the paradox, we presumably need to be able to work in a language with sufficient resources to express the paradox. I.e. really digging into the theory of truth probably means that you don't to be worrying about the hierarchical language-level of any given use of the word 'true' you might let slip.<BR/><BR/>Or, like, in this case, to explain why the cat really isn't, as initially seemed to be the case, both alive and dead at the same time and in the same sense, you probably need to be able to refer to cats, and apply aliveness and deadness predicates to them.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06702722560438833244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2631035637795172582.post-37736826401110222112008-07-28T19:25:00.000-07:002008-07-28T19:25:00.000-07:00I followed until here:"Surely, however, the beginn...I followed until here:<BR/><BR/>"Surely, however, the beginning of wisdom would be the recognition that a language without the expressive resources to discuss cats would simply be a bad medium in which to discuss this thorny problem."<BR/><BR/>Can you elaborate on that? I thought you had conceded that the consistent revision of language in this world gave us a way to say everything we need to say about cats. Am I misunderstanding something?Colinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11764726376012276409noreply@blogger.com