Scott Soames, “Appreciating Analytic Philosophy” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
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Is There a True Sentence of English?
If there were such a formula, then the liar paradox would be reconstructible in arithmetic. But to assume that it's true, you'll get a contradiction that it's not true. And so the conclusion that people draw is that there is no formula of the language of arithmetic which has those properties. So how could that possibly be? And in some icouldn't possibly be. What question? What conclusion do you draw from this? Am, this strikes me as still an unresolved question.
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