Henri Galinon wrote on Wed, 6 Dec 2006:
>Dear FOMers,
> in his essay "The ways of paradox", Quine has a
>passage on Berry's
>paradox. At the very end of the passage (last remark
>of the following
>(quote), he offers the reader a little amusing game
>>(implicitly at
>least) by hinting at a solution. My question is :
>what is Quine's
>"solution" ?
Consider the possibility of the obvious joke: the
least number not specifiable-0 in less than nineteen
syllables
might be simply not specifiable-0, and hence not
specifiable-0 in less than 23 syllables.
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