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   Michiel Borkent to All   
   Re: weakness of predicate logic?   
   02 Feb 04 22:00:33   
   
   From: borkent@cs.utwente.nl   
      
   > It would seem to be a great virtue of predicate logic, if it cannot   
   > express such nonsense.   
      
   Btw, we can put things like:   
      
   Vx.P(x) ^ ¬P(x)   
      
   too right? So maybe it's not that trivial as you might have thought, being   
   not able to self-reference in Predicate Logic? And is the Diagonalization   
   Lemma not a proof of that we actually can self-reference in PL?   
      
   Gr,   
   Michiel Borkent   
      
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