Linguae & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne· 2021
Il paradosso del mentitore
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Short summary
Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy offers a solution to the liar paradox by asserting that truth and falsehood are linguistic concepts, and propositions cannot self-referentially determine their own truth value.
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Key points
- The liar paradox is a self-referential logical problem connecting truth and falsehood.
- Wittgenstein's philosophy suggests truth and falsehood are linguistic constructs.
- Propositions cannot self-referentially determine their own truth or falsity.
- Stepping outside language to reality resolves the paradox.
- This approach aligns with Gödel's theorem on undecidable propositions.
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Abstract
The liar paradox is an ancient logical paradox (revisited by modern thinkers) which links truth with falsehood and falsehood with truth, and is based on a self-referential mechanism. It has been discussed by a variety of authors, from Aristotle to Bateson. The solution to that paradox, however, can be found by having recourse to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, and by, so to speak, getting out of language (because true and false are words which belong to our language) to attain reality. This can be expressed through Wittgenstein’s idea that no proposition can say of itself whether it is true or false. However, experience is also expressible in words – and one can think of propositions which cannot be confirmed or disproved according to experience. Studying the paradox, therefore, leads one to Gödel’s theorem which offers a mathematical demonstration of the existence of undecidable propositions.
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