Insights into Curry's Paradox?

·LessWrong··

Hi,I am trying to more precisely understand some ideas in mathematical logic and find myself drowning a bit in self referential formal logic and theorems by Lob, Tarski, Kripke, Godel... Looking at Curry's Paradox:1) Let F be: "if this sentence is true then Santa exists"2) Assume F is true. 3) Since F says “if F is true then Santa exists” and we have assumed F is true, Santa exists.4) This proves F implies Santa exists; precisely F. So Santa exists by step 3.It is obvious to me that the patholog...

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