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The problem with such sleight of hand counterargument is that you haven't even defined what "a thing" is nor "all things" are in this world. And such discussion
by miksteyp 1mo ago
The problem with such sleight of hand counterargument is that you haven't even defined what "a thing" is nor "all things" are in this world. And such discussions will just come back to set theory, ZFC, axiom of choice and real numbers.
- delecti 1mo agoThat isn't a problem with the counterargument, because the "paradox" as-stated also uses the word "thing". For that matter, the paradox is self-resolving. By labeling the entities it is concerned with as "unnameable things", it has named them. As a collection, entities not otherwise named can be simply referred to as "Bhartrhari's things".
- miksteyp 1mo agoAnd this is why analytical philosophy should be kept out of mathematics - Some 18th century mathematician before Cantor