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#REDIRECT [[Stephen Yablo#Yablo's paradox]] |
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Yablo's paradox is a liar-like paradox without any apparent self-reference published by [[Stephen Yablo]] in 1993. |
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== The paradox == |
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The paradox arises from considering the following infinite set of sentences: |
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* (S1): for all k >1, Sk is false |
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* (S2): for all k >2, Sk is false |
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* (S3): for all k >3, Sk is false |
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The set is paradoxical, because it is unsatisfiable (contradictory), but this unsatisfiability defies immediate intuition. |
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Moreover, none of the sentences refers to itself, but only to the subsequent sentences; and this leads Yablo to claim that his liar-like paradox does not rely on self-reference. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.mit.edu/~yablo/pwsr.pdf "Paradox Without Self-Reference"] - ''Analysis'', vol. 53 (1993), pp. 251–52 |
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