Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!benson From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Self-reference Message-ID: <206@dcdwest.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jun-83 15:35:47 EDT Article-I.D.: dcdwest.206 Posted: Mon Jun 6 15:35:47 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 23:11:28 EDT Lines: 34 In an ad I read recently, I came upon the sentence: "obsolescence is becoming obsolete" Shades of Quine and Douglas Hofstadter! this sentence means: "becoming obsolete is becoming obsolete" which is either a tautology or one of those sentence like this statement is false or "Yields a falsehood when prepended by a quoted version of itself" yields a falsehood when prepended by a quoted version of itself. with the nice twist that it only does so in the limit. Peter Benson decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!benson PS. While I am at it, I would like to point out the neon sign appearing in restaurant windows - ___________ | BUD | | LIGHT | ___________ which is, of course, exactly what it is, a Bud light.