(philosophy paper) "Self reference in word definitions" arxiv.org Submitted by mm_ on December 23, 2020 at 5:01 AM in articles 2 comments 4
oolong wrote on December 30, 2020 at 5:31 AM really enjoyed this "Although in theory one need only know the meanings of some subset of the words in a loop in order to infer the definitions of the remaining words, at the conceptual level the meanings of these words remain completely intertwined." feels like no man is an island but for words Permalink 2
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