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   Michiel Borkent to All   
   Re: weakness of predicate logic?   
   02 Feb 04 21:48:23   
   
   From: borkent@cs.utwente.nl   
      
   > >in logic: "This sentence is not true".   
   >   
   > It would seem to be a great virtue of predicate logic, if it cannot   
   > express such nonsense.   
      
   Surely that sentence is nonsense. But I've been pointed to an articale about   
   self-reference by someone who claimed self-reference is possible, which I   
   thought was impossible.   
      
   He told me to look up the article of Don Perlis on self-reference for more   
   explanation.   
      
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