A Pragmatic Dissolution of Curry’s Paradox

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)149-175
Number of pages27
JournalLogica Universalis
Volume16
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2022

Keywords

  • Non-classical logics
  • Pragmatics
  • Russell’s paradox
  • The Liar

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