A Pragmatic Dissolution of Curry’s Paradox

Although formal analysis provides us with interesting tools for treating Curry’s paradox, it certainly does not exhaust every possible reading of it. Thus, we suggest that this paradox should be analysed with non-formal tools coming from pragmatics. In this way, using Grice’s logic of conversation,...

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Published inLogica universalis Vol. 16; no. 1-2; pp. 149 - 175
Main Author Mora Ramirez, Rafael Félix
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 01.06.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Computer Science
Logic
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Paradoxes
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03B20
03B53
Russell’s paradox
03B60
03B50
Pragmatics
The Liar
91F20
Primary 03B65
Non-classical logics
Secondary 03A05
03A05
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Summary:Although formal analysis provides us with interesting tools for treating Curry’s paradox, it certainly does not exhaust every possible reading of it. Thus, we suggest that this paradox should be analysed with non-formal tools coming from pragmatics. In this way, using Grice’s logic of conversation, we will see that Curry’s sentence can be reinterpreted as a peculiar conditional sentence implying its own consequent.
ISSN:1661-8297
1661-8300
DOI:10.1007/s11787-022-00294-9