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jueves, 26 de julio de 2012

La paradoja de Yablo

http://www.mit.edu/~yablo/pwsr.pdf

 Paradox without Self-Reference

Why are some sentences paradoxical while others are not? Since Russell the
universal answer has been: circularity, and more especially self-reference.1
Not that self-reference suffices for paradox. Such a view is refuted by the work of
Gödel and Tarski, and by various commonsense examples, such as “For the last time,
stop that racket!” and “So dear Lord to Thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise.”
What many do seem to think is that some sort of self-reference, be it direct or mediated,
is necessary for paradox. So one often hears that the surest way of keeping a language
paradox-free is to impose an absolute ban on all self-reference. “This may be using a
cannon against a fly,” it is said, “but at least it stops the fly.”
Except that it does not stop the fly: paradoxes like the Liar are possible in the
complete absence of self-reference. Imagine an infinite sequence of sentences S1, S2,
S3,....., each to the effect that every subsequent sentence is untrue:
(S1) for all k >1, Sk is untrue
(S2) for all k >2, Sk is untrue
(S3) for all k >3, Sk is untrue

Some semantical paradoxes, for instance Grelling’s, trade not on self-reference but on
circularity of other kinds. Self-reference has seemed essential to Liar-like paradox,
however. This note gives an example of a Liar-like paradox that is not in any way
circular.
Suppose for contradiction that some Sn is true. Given what Sn says, for all k>n, Sk is
untrue. Therefore (a) Sn+1 is untrue, and (b) for all k>n+1, Sk is untrue. By (b), what
Sn+1 says is in fact the case, whence contrary to (a) Sn+1 is true! So every sentence Sn in
the sequence is untrue. But then the sentences subsequent to any given Sn are all untrue,
whence Sn is true after all! I conclude that self-reference is neither necessary nor sufficient for Liar-like paradox.
 



Stephen Yablo
University of Michigan, Ann Arbo

1 comentario:

  1. El Grupo de la GAF hizo una Jornada el 24 de julio sobre la paradoja de Yablo. Por eso la comparto porque yo no la conocía.
    Más referencias: GAF
    SYMPOSIUM ON YABLO’S PARADOX

    Invited Speaker: Roy Cook (University of Minnesota)

    Tuesday 24, 15hr.

    Barrio, E (UBA - Conicet) "The Yablo Paradox and Circularity",

    Picollo, L. (UBA - Conicet) "The Old-Fashioned Yablo Paradox"

    Teijeiro, P. "Circularity is still scary"

    Pailos, F. (UBA - Conicet) "About two objections to Cook’s proposal"

    Tajer, D. (UBA - Conicet)"Anti-realism and infinitary proofs"

    Rosenblatt, L. (UBA - Conicet) "On the possibility of a general purge of self-reference"

    Ojea, I (UBA - Conicet) "The structural collapse approach reconsidered"

    Comments by Roy Cook (University of Minnesota)

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