On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Sean Hunt <scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > Amend the rule 'Win by Paradox' by replacing > actual or hypothetical, but not arising > from that case itself, and not occurring after the initiation of > that case > with > actual or hypothetical, but not arising > from that case itself, not occurring after the initiation of > that case, and not involving self-reference or mutually recursive > references.
This may or may not be possible to circumvent by means such as this: {It would be PROHIBITED to ratify a report whose text consists of the following paragraph without quotation marks, followed by the following paragraph within quotation marks: "It would be ILLEGAL to ratify a report whose text consists of the following paragraph without quotation marks, followed by the following paragraph within quotation marks:"} Anyway, if self-reference is not the point, then what is? It seems like the only thing that could result in a turtle would be a single clause within a rule that contradicts itself. —Machiavelli