Etymology

Yablo's paradox

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Published by Stephen Yablo in 1993.

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