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paradox of the knower: a standalone construct

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the paradox that a sentence saying of itself that it is known to be false yields a contradiction under minimal principles about knowledge.

In logic, paradox of the knower refers to the paradox that a sentence saying of itself that it is known to be false yields a contradiction under minimal principles about knowledge. This meaning comes from Kaplan (1960) in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic.[1]

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knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs paradox3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs sentence3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Kaplan, D., & Montague, R. (1960). A paradox regained. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1093956549

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