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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

Volume 87 Issue 1, Pages 1 - 11

Published Online: 24 Feb 2006

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NATURALISM AND THE PARADOX OF REVISABILITY
MARK COLYVAN 1
  1 Philosophy Program University of Queensland
Copyright © 2006 The Author Journal compilation
© 2006 University of Southern California and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

ABSTRACT

Abstract: This paper examines the paradox of revisability. This paradox was proposed by Jerrold Katz as a problem for Quinean naturalised epistemology. Katz employs diagonalisation to demonstrate what he takes to be an inconsistency in the constitutive principles of Quine's epistemology. Specifically, the problem seems to rest with the principle of universal revisability which states that no statement is immune to revision. In this paper it is argued that although there is something odd about employing universal revisability to revise itself, there is nothing paradoxical about this. At least, there is no paradox along the lines suggested by Katz.


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10.1111/j.1468-0114.2006.00244.x About DOI

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