Wittgenstein manages to say a good deal about what cannot be said. —Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. —Yogi Berra2 Rather than jumping headfirst into the limitations of reason, let us start by just getting our toes wet and examining the limitations of language. Language is a tool used to describe the world in which we live. However, don’t confuse the map with the territory! There is one major difference between the world we live in and language: whereas the real world is free of contradictions, the man-made linguistic descriptions of that world can have contradictions. In section 2.1, we encounter the famous liar paradox and its many variants. These are relatively easy puzzles that will get us started. Section 2.2 contains a collection of self-referential paradoxes. I show that they all have the same form.
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