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Yablo's paradox

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Japanese Meaning
嘘つきパラドックスに類似した論理的パラドックスで、単一の文ではなく無限の文列を利用し、各文が後続する文の真偽に言及することで、自己言及の循環を回避しようとするもの。
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哲学の学生はしばしば、ヤブロの逆説を完全に理解するのに苦労する。なぜならそれは単一の“この文は偽である”のような文を、後の文の真偽だけに言及する無限の文列に置き換えることで循環性を避けているからだ。

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A logical paradox resembling the liar paradox but using, instead of a single sentence, an infinite sequence of statements, each referring to the truth values of the later statements in the sequence, and thus attempting to avoid circularity.

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Yablo's paradox

Philosophy students often struggle to fully grasp Yablo's paradox because it replaces a single liar sentence with an infinite sequence that refers only to later statements.

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Philosophy students often struggle to fully grasp Yablo's paradox because it replaces a single liar sentence with an infinite sequence that refers only to later statements.

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