On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Sean Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Amend the rule 'Win by Paradox' by replacing
> actual or hypothetical, but not arising
> from that case itself, and not occurring after the initiation of
> that case
> with
> actual or hypothetical, but not arising
> from that case itself, not occurring after the initiation of
> that case, and not involving self-reference or mutually recursive
> references.
This may or may not be possible to circumvent by means such as this:
{It would be PROHIBITED to ratify a report whose text consists of the
following paragraph without quotation marks, followed by the following
paragraph within quotation marks:
"It would be ILLEGAL to ratify a report whose text consists of the
following paragraph without quotation marks, followed by the following
paragraph within quotation marks:"}
Anyway, if self-reference is not the point, then what is? It seems
like the only thing that could result in a turtle would be a single
clause within a rule that contradicts itself.
—Machiavelli
