dxm@lanl.ARPA (04/18/85)
led a "strange loop" by Douglas Hofstatder, who wrote a *very* good book called _Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_ that discusses such things in depth. It is very readable, and utterly fascinating ( couldn't resist a plug here, I love this book ). Anyway, it turns out that you need a meta-language to handle paradoxes; that is, a language that refers to the language in which the paradox exists. Of course, paradoxes in the meta- language are resolved with meta-meta-languages, etc. Doug Miller dxm@lanl ....!ihnp4!lanl!dxm US Mail Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O.B 1663 MS J960, Los Alamos, NM 87545