Hunter resolves the appearance of the Liar's Paradox through proper order of operations: propositions must satisfy logical, semantic, and syntactic requirements before truth-value reasoning. Failure of the self-referential statement to qualify is a limitation of that statement, not a limitation in Logic; the authored argument, analogy, and truth table remain intact.
Hunter resolves the appearance of the Liar's Paradox through proper order of operations: propositions must satisfy logical, semantic, and syntactic requirements before truth-value reasoning. Failure of the self-referential statement to qualify is a limitation of that statement, not a limitation in Logic; the authored argument, analogy, and truth table remain intact.
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The Appearance of a Paradox by Maclain Hunter:
Abstract: I will demonstrate that Russell’s Liar’s Paradox is merely the result of a failure to apply proper order of operations in the logical reasoning with self-referential statements.
Premises:
P: A semantically empty statement like that found in the Liar’s Paradox where S represents a statement like “statement S is false” is not a valid statement, negating the relevance of the output of reasoning and operations performed with or on the statement. This is because using the empty statement as the referent for its own truth value is an absurdity.
Q: Trying to find the truth value of a statement like S amounts to saying “nothing is true” and/or “nothing is false”.
R: Among other logical issues with the statement in the Liar’s Paradox, premise Q helps us to see that the statement S is logically equivalent to a fallacious generalization that swings between negation of Truth and the negation of falseness, which is a logically untenable position (as Truth is inherent to Reality).
S: A statement like S being invalid doesn’t reflect a limitation in Logic but rather in the statement. The fact Logic can help us understand there is something odd and wrong about a statement like S in the first place is a display of its purpose/practice.
T: Propositions must meet basic semantic and syntactic requirements, namely the logical rules including Identity, Non-Contradiction, the Excluded Middle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, De Morgan’s Law, Modus Ponens, and Modus Tollens. Propositions that don’t conform to logical rules do not qualify for the next stages of reasoning that would be entailed by having prepared a valid proposition.
U: Assume ~{P, Q, R, S, T}. This leads to logical contradiction, most famously in the form of the Liar’s Paradox. Ergo a valid resolution to the famous (alleged) paradox is the acceptance of the Truth of the premises.
Proof:
{P, P <-> Q, Q <-> R, R <-> S, S <-> T, T <-> U} |= (((P & Q) & (R & S)) & T) & U
Conclusion: There is no Liar’s Paradox, just poor reasoning that led people to believe it. Proper logical order of operations shows that, how, and why the statement S cannot pass muster to even be reasoned with as a valid proposition. To try to reason with it (S) is incoherent and wrong-headed - unless one understands it can’t be a valid statement and that it is merely an exercise to explore logical systems. The paradox is an illusion and logically consistent Logic (with proper order of operations) necessarily functions perfectly.
Analogy:
An analogy, for what the Liar’s Paradox is essentially doing logically, is putting water instead of gas in the gas tank of a car, then declaring engines have flaws and limitations due to the fact your car predictably/properly won’t/wouldn’t start. It’s not a legitimate complaint about the machinery and mechanics. Put gas in the gas tank (and valid statements into Logical Systems) - paradox and problem solved (with common sense frankly).
Truth Table Analysis:
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PQRSTU⎪P P↔Q Q↔R R↔S S↔T T↔U╞(((P&Q)&(R&S))&T)&U
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TTTTTT⎪T TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT TTT T TTT TT TT
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Q.E.D. Hunter resolves the appearance of the Liar's Paradox through proper order of operations: propositions must satisfy logical, semantic, and syntactic requirements before truth-value reasoning. Failure of the self-referential statement to qualify is a limitation of that statement, not a limitation in Logic; the authored argument, analogy, and truth table remain intact.
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Consequence: Hunter resolves the appearance of the Liar's Paradox through proper order of operations: propositions must satisfy logical, semantic, and syntactic requirements before truth-value reasoning. Failure of the self-referential statement to qualify is a limitation of that statement, not a limitation in Logic; the authored argument, analogy, and truth table remain intact.
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