benson@dcdwest.UUCP (06/06/83)
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.
leichter@yale-com.UUCP (06/09/83)
My favorite "self-reference" (of the general sort): Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be. -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter