What is the name of this thread?
Sort:
"What is the name of this thread?" obviously!
This sentence refers to itself.
yes cartesian, that is obviously the question to ask! But what is the answer? 
and why the scare-quotes? you tryin' to scare me? Please read Lynn Truss's book and punctuate your posts better next time <slot for finger-wagging-emoticon> ;)
and why the scare-quotes? you tryin' to scare me? Please read Lynn Truss's book and punctuate your posts better next time <slot for finger-wagging-emoticon> ;)
no rael, i dont think the name of this thread is 'this sentence refers to itself' either .
Nor is it the less-quibblable form of 'this sentence refers to itself' discovered by Willard Quine and published in 1953 in his book 'set theory and its logic' (and reproduced by Hofstadter in GEB) namely:
'
"appended by its own quotation yields a falsehood" appended by its own quotation yields a falsehood
'
[ one can still quibble with it in that it is not a statement - the full stop (period) is missing. But that is repairable by routine methods, at the cost of making the sentence very long and clumsy. ]
Please Sign Up to comment.
If you need help, please contact our Help and Support team.
What is the name of this thread?