
Originally Posted by
John Galt

Originally Posted by
sigurdV
You wont believe this but I created a new class of statements

You are mistaken. Many people were talking nonsense before you came on the scene.
Ha! I didnt see this before.
The obvious riposte is that you are not the first who is deluded by preconcieved notions!
Be that as it may. I shall explain. Not for you, really, but for other readers:
1 There are two classes of sentences:
Sentences and metasentences.
I suspect john is too daft to know the difference
without writing it on his nose...
So Ill give a more formal definition:
2 If for any sentence,x, there is a Z
such that x="xZ" then x is a self referential sentence.
3 If x is not a selfreferential sentence
then x is an ordinary sentence, or not a sentence.
I have now formed a segment of a larger theory.
I will not at the moment try to continue
by presenting that larger theory.
I will instead point out that the given segment
can be applied not only to sentences but also to theories:
A theory not about theories (like physics) obviously is ordinary .
But it is sometimes thought that physics is the basic theory
which forms the foundation of ALL other theories
including the theory of how mind creates theories
if that is true then physics becomes a self referential theory.
Now lets pause to hear John say:
Nonsense! It makes him so happy.
The sentences I have invented awaits us later in the development of this "basic" theory.
Perhaps you should move our posts into lingustics John?
Our conversation (?) does not have much to do with History.
There is a Historical chain from Frege to, say , Davidson or Chomsky but I will not highlight it.