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There is quite an amusing article on self-reference in the latest 
Math Intelligencer, (Vol 14, #4, 1992).  It is a paper by Dosen entitled
"One more reference on self-reference", which very appropriately has only one
paper mentioned in the references: itself !!

There was one passage that caught my eye, and it may ring loud bells with others
as well:

 If a typical working mathematician shows an interest in this phenomenon, it is
 more on the recreational side, in a Gardner mood.
 .....one can hardly expect to learn much. One just gets the thrill of 
 something amusing, but also whimsical, confused, and a little bit unnerving -
 intriguing but not worth pursuing seriously - something basically hollow.
 One abandons such papers without enlightenment, without any sense of achievement.

How very true !

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              Bill Taylor              wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz
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