Lexicon of Arguments

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I (i) 232f
Paradoxes/truth/PutnamVsTarski: the paradox of his theory is that you have to stand outside the whole hierarchy to say that the hierarchy exists. Charles Parsons: thesis: statements about truth values are made in a higher language - a speech act 'sui generis'. Cf. >Liar Paradox.
I (i) 234
PutnamVsParsons, Charles: a speech act is not more 'sui generis' than a sentence in red ink. This is a merely formalistic trick to say, they could then not contain paradoxes. The problem is only shifted: the language in which we express that sentences in red ink ...
Solution/Putnam: some forms of discourse can be understood without a prerequisite concept of truth.
Rorty: proposes this for all discourses. Some: these things could not be "said, but shown".
PutnamVs: the notion that there was a discursive thought that could not be said is incomprehensible.
Gödel: takes set-theoretic paradoxes to be solved; semantic paradoxes for not solved.

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