Re: No Reification Here

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From: Michael Zeleny
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:30

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In article <1hntpkINNnp8@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> 
PL436000@brownvm.brown.edu (Jamie) writes:

>But, I don't understand how using unreified predicates instead of
>objects helps avoid set theoretic paradoxes. Grelling's paradox
>uses only a predicate, and (unless I'm very confused) does not
>require reification.

You are very confused.  If Grelling's paradox is regarded as purely
syntactical, then it is unproblematic on a Quinian view that requires
stratification (as spurious as such a requirement might be); if, on
the other hand, it is regarded as semantical, then the contradiction
depends on the assumption that the predicate "...is heterological"
expresses a _bona fide_ property.

>Jamie

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."

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