A Pragmatic Dissolution of Curry’s Paradox

Mora Ramirez R.F. · Logica Universalis (2022) · DOI: 10.1007/s11787-022-00294-9

Resumen

Although formal analysis provides us with interesting tools for treating Curry’s paradox, it certainly does not exhaust every possible reading of it. Thus, we suggest that this paradox should be analysed with non-formal tools coming from pragmatics. In this way, using Grice’s logic of conversation, we will see that Curry’s sentence can be reinterpreted as a peculiar conditional sentence implying its own consequent.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal