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2.1. Introduction 2.1. Introduction
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2.2. The Barber Paradox and Grelling’s Paradox 2.2. The Barber Paradox and Grelling’s Paradox
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2.3. A Treatment of Soritical App-Inconsistent Expressions: Preamble to Semantic Nihilism I 2.3. A Treatment of Soritical App-Inconsistent Expressions: Preamble to Semantic Nihilism I
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2.4. A Nihilistically Related Treatment of a Liar-Like Expression: Semantic Nihilism I 2.4. A Nihilistically Related Treatment of a Liar-Like Expression: Semantic Nihilism I
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2.5. A Treatment of Further App-Inconsistent Expressions: Semantic Nihilism II 2.5. A Treatment of Further App-Inconsistent Expressions: Semantic Nihilism II
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2.6. Why There Are No Languages 2.6. Why There Are No Languages
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2.7. Application to the Liar Paradox 2.7. Application to the Liar Paradox
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2.8. Concluding Remarks 2.8. Concluding Remarks
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Appendix A Treatment of Indeterminate Expressions: Semantic Nihilism III Appendix A Treatment of Indeterminate Expressions: Semantic Nihilism III
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Notes Notes
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References References
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2 From No People to No Languages: A Nihilistic Response to the Liar Family of Semantic Paradoxes
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Published:August 2017
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Abstract
This chapter shows that the method that Peter Unger (1979, 1980) has developed for dealing with the sorites paradox can, and perhaps should, be extended and applied to the semantic paradoxes—specifically, to Grelling’s paradox and to the liar paradox. After carefully explicating Unger’s earlier method for treating the sorites, the chapter expands on a very brief, compact argument in which he (1979) contends that, in light of certain putatively paradoxical semantic expressions, which are not obviously soritical, there are no expressions and, hence, no languages. The concluding section of the chapter identifies some important similarities between the liar paradox and the sorites.
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