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                                      Language Paradoxes If we take such apparently paradoxical statements as ‘I am lying’, the first step is to translate it as ‘this statement is false’, or ‘deliberately false’ and then to set out the paradox and try to resolve it. Consider A: ‘this statement is false’. If A is true, it is false; if false, true. Let us now try to resolve such paradoxes, starting with an examination of B: ‘this statement is short’. Since B is indeed short, it can hardly be denied that it makes sense; therefore, not all apparent self-reference is problematic, though in the present case we are left with a problem of analysis or translation. I think that B should be translated as: ‘the sentence ‘this statement is short’ is short’. Why should we accept this translation? Because it follows from t...

 The following is a draft copy of an unpublished article I intended to submit to "Think", the philosophy journal, in response to a reply to an article of mine on the meaning of life. My response article has not been published, but my original published article, or a revised version of it, has now been incorporated into a book I am about to finish. Its title is  Solution to the Problems of Intention ,  Induction, Perception, the Past and Other Minds: The Ultimate Mystery Beyond Scepticism.  This book, which I have been writing for too many years for me to care to remember them, will shortly be submitted for publication. I am keeping my fingers crossed − not my real ones, which I need for this keyboard, but my imaginary ones, which I hardly ever use.     The Meaning and the Mystery of Life: Reply to Brenda Watson My aim in replying to Brenda Watson’s article (Think 36) in response to mine (Think 33) is twofold: first, to comment on her view of the m...

These posts are copied from the Big Mac Wholly Soul Band Facebook group site. They are a record of the Big Mac gigs we attended between 2018 and March 2020 when it all came to an end. For followers of the band, I was the blinged up dancer who danced on the empty floor immediately the band struck up. Another world, another death to grieve; another life to mourn.  Dec 23 2018 Dinner and dance at the Vale Resort last night. with the Big Mac Band. I think the The cooks must all have been Big Mac fans who got so excited in anticipation of the performance that their minds weren't really on cooking the food. But then, we were all Big Mac fans, so our minds weren't really on eating it, It was probably left over from the previous dinner/dance with Big Mac, but it really didn't matter.The main course was the band and the dance, which was delicious, as always, and we all had a great time, including Mike and the band.. They are doing it all over again tonight at the Tramshed. It's ...