Self-reference is the foundation of a new mystery religion. Adherents see paradoxes everywhere, even at the foundation of critical thinking—logic itself. “The Liar’s Paradox”, they say, “demonstrates that the law of non-contradiction isn’t absolute.” “Logic can’t really give us the truth, because something something Godel’s incompleteness theorems.” Nearly all the mystical paradoxes people bring up today invoke […]
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