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Epistemic Closure and Epistemological Optimism
Half a century later, a Dretskean stance on epistemic closure remains a minority view. Why? Mainly because critics have successfully poked holes in...
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Introduction
Raymond Smullyan was born in 1919, after the Great War and before the Great Depression. I have known him since I was a graduate student and he was my... -
Gödel, Lucas, and the Soul-Searching Selfie
J. R. Lucas argues against mechanism that an ideal, immortal agent whose mental activities could be mimicked by a Turing machine would be able,... -
Knights, Knaves, Truth, Truthfulness, Grounding, Tethering, Aboutness, and Paradox
Knights always tell the truth; Knaves always lie. Knaves for familiar reasons cannot coherently describe themselves as liars. That would be like... -
Categoricity Theorems and Conceptions of Set
Two models of second-order ZFC need not be isomorphic to each other, but at least one is isomorphic to an initial segment of the other. The situation...
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Semantics and the Liar Paradox
The semantical paradoxes are not a scientific subject like Inductive Definitions, Algebraic Geometry or Plasma Physics. At least not yet. On the... -
Semantics and the Liar Paradox
The semantical paradoxes are not a scientific subject like Inductive Definitions, Algebraic Geometry or Plasma Physics. At least not yet. On the...