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Quine's Paradox

'Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation' yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation

Overview

A self-referential paradox that achieves self-reference without pronouns or explicit reference.

The sentence: '"yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation' creates a liar paradox through clever self-reference. The quoted part, when preceded by itself (as the sentence does), creates a self-referential loop.

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