By Piotr Łukowski
The publication is a monograph dedicated to paradoxes of reasoning within the ecu culture of philosophical good judgment. for every paradox, it analyses very important makes an attempt at its solution.The content material is prepared in line with the recent type of paradoxes awarded via the writer. The paradoxes mentioned within the first 3 chapters may be known as intra-linguistic ones. the 1st bankruptcy analyzes paradoxes caused by a conflict among a logically right reasoning and formerly permitted evaluations. the second is dedicated to paradoxes as a result of the mistake of ambiguity. The 3rd one analyzes reasonings, whose paradoxical personality originates in self-referent language structures. bankruptcy 4 discusses paradoxes that are known as ontological ones, whose life effects from a disagreement among the language description of fact and that truth itself.
The e-book is written in a transparent approach and doesn't require complicated wisdom of common sense. it's addressed to readers with both humanist or medical academic historical past and bargains with vital difficulties of language, cognition and reasoning in an available approach.
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From the theological point of view, it would not be difficult, probably, to show that the trinity of sequences {an, bn, cn} is too simple to be a complete and adequate model of the Holy Trinity. The aim of this presentation, however, was to show that there is a possibility of reconciling with one another the paradoxically sounding conditions characterizing the Trinity. , mathematics. The above construction does not prove the dogma of the Holy Trinity. It shows only that the dogma is not an absurd.
28 2 Paradoxes of Wrong Intuition interested in another issue, however, viz. the one which concerns the idea of noncontradictory character of three different beings, each of which is included in another one, so that every one includes the remaining two. In other words, we shall analyze a question whether logic allows a possibility that three different beings form a unity that is included in everyone of the three beings. Let us present then a non-contradictory mathematical construction of such an object, leaving aside all other theological and philosophical issues related to the concept of the holy Trinity in order to make the complex problem simpler.
8 Fitch’s Paradox 33 Fitch’s Paradox seems to undermine this principle, for it argues, starting from evident premises concerning knowledge, that: if there is a true proposition whose truthfulness is not known, there is a true proposition whose truthfulness will not be known by anyone. 34 Fitch’s reasoning can be presented as follows: Fitch’s Paradox (Paradox of Knowability) Let us assume that q is a true proposition, whose truthfulness is not known. Let us consider another proposition: (1) q and it is not known that q It is a true proposition but an unknowable one.