Two-Dimensional Paradox

Authors
Publication date 2019
Journal Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Volume | Issue number 97 | 3
Pages (from-to) 605-617
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Two-dimensional accounts of speech and thought make use of so-called ‘diagonal’ propositions. If diagonals are indeed propositions, they can be negated: an ‘anti-diagonal’ is the negation of a diagonal. However, the existence of anti-diagonals is inconsistent with very natural assumptions to which two-dimensionalists like Chalmers and Stalnaker are committed, as shown by an argument that closely resembles more familiar paradoxes.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2018.1484500
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