Abstract

Dissoi Logoi 4.6 presents a beautiful self-refutation argument, which I analyse here, offering a different assessment of its relation to self-contradiction and the Liar paradox from the only one available in the literature.

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  • The logic of the self-refutation argument in Dissoi Logoi 4.6

  • Dissoi Logoi 4.6 presents a beautiful self-refutation argument, which I analyse here, offering a different assessment of its relation to self-contradiction and the Liar paradox from the only one available in the literature

  • After having defended IT in the first part of the chapter (§§ 4.2-5), the anonymous sophist author of the Dissoi Logoi is arguing for DT (§§ 4.6-9), and his first argument is the one under examination here

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The logic of the self-refutation argument in Dissoi Logoi 4.6 Dissoi Logoi 4.6 presents a beautiful self-refutation argument, which I analyse here, offering a different assessment of its relation to self-contradiction and the Liar paradox from the only one available in the literature.

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