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- From: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
- Subject: Re: No Reification Here
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:35:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.203018.18876@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >In article <1hntpkINNnp8@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- >PL436000@brownvm.brown.edu (Jamie) writes:
- >
- >>But, I don't understand how using unreified predicates instead of
- >>objects helps avoid set theoretic paradoxes. Grelling's paradox
- >>uses only a predicate, and (unless I'm very confused) does not
- >>require reification.
- >
- >You are very confused. If Grelling's paradox is regarded as purely
- >syntactical, then it is unproblematic on a Quinian view that requires
- >stratification (as spurious as such a requirement might be); if, on
- >the other hand, it is regarded as semantical, then the contradiction
- >depends on the assumption that the predicate "...is heterological"
- >expresses a _bona fide_ property.
-
- Thanks, Mikhail, for identifying the paradox! I don't see the
- relevance of stratification to the syntactical version of Grelling's
- paradox; unless you are referring to my own recent proposal vis-a-vis
- stratification and semantic paradoxes? But the obvious interpretation
- involves _properties_, which are reified predicates, as Mikhail points
- out.
-
- >
- >>Jamie
- >
- >cordially,
- >mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- >"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-
-
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- The opinions expressed | --Sincerely,
- above are not the "official" | M. Randall Holmes
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