The many faces of the Liar Paradox

The Liar Paradox is a classic argument that creates a contradiction by reflection on a sentence that attributes falsity to itself: ‘this sentence is false’. In our paper we will discuss the ways in which the Liar sentence (and its paradoxical argument) can be represented in first-order logic. The ke...

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Published in:	Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Main Authors:	José Martínez-Fernández, Sergi Oms
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2024-07-01
Subjects:	Liar Paradox Truth Self-reference Semantic Paradox
Online Access:	https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/96700

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