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> "Reality is indescribable" becomes a bit of a liar's paradox. There is a difference between an imperfect description and a lie. Kuhn does not say that all de
by olavk 8y ago
> "Reality is indescribable" becomes a bit of a liar's paradox.
There is a difference between an imperfect description and a lie. Kuhn does not say that all descriptions of the world are lies, or that "anything goes", although he have sometimes been misunderstood as saying that.
- brownbat 8y agoAh. That's not exactly what I meant by liar's paradox. I just meant it's a paradox of self reference. The liar's paradox is the most famous, but the set of all sets that do not contain themselves is another. So it's true the Kuhnian proposition is much closer to "Every claim about reality is (somewhat) inaccurate." But we still have a massive issue. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-reference/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-reference/ Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Self-referential_paradoxes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Self-referential_pa...
- olavk 8y agoI don't see the paradox though. The problem with the liars paradox is not the self reference itself, the problem is that the self reference leads to a contradiction. I don't see any contradiction the sentence presenting Kuhn's view.