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Análisis filosófico

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Abstract

OJEA, Ignacio. The Structural Collapse Approach Reconsidered. Anal. filos. [online]. 2012, vol.32, n.1, pp.61-68. ISSN 1851-9636.

I will argue that Roy Cook’s (forthcoming) reformulation of Yablo’s Paradox in the infinitary system D is a genuinely non-circular paradox, but for different reasons than the ones he sustained. In fact, the first part of the job will be to show that his argument regarding the absence of fixed points in the construction is insufficient to prove the noncircularity of it; at much it proves its non-self referentiality. The second is to reconsider the structural collapse approach Cook rejects, and argue that a correct understanding of it leads us to the claim that the infinitary paradox is actually non-circular.

Keywords : Paradox; Circularity; Yablo; Structural collapse.

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