A self-refuting idea or self-defeating idea is an idea or statement whose falsehood is a logical consequence of the act or situation of holding them to...

Introspection Law of identity Primitive notion Self-reference Self-refuting idea Maddy, Penelope (1988). "Believing the Axioms" (PDF). Journal of Symbolic...

ostensible self-contradiction Paradox, a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation Self-refuting idea or reductio...

successful planning means the planned-for danger was smaller than it was Self-refuting idea, a logical statement that negates itself Grandfather Paradox, similar...

Self-defeating may refer to: Self-defeating personality disorder Self-defeating prophecy Self-refuting idea This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

beard – Example of a paradoxical argument Revision theory Self-refuting idea – Idea that refutes itself Syntactic ambiguity – Sentences with structures permitting...

that allow them to be stated. Proof that 0.999... equals 1 Puzzle Self-refuting idea Theories of humor: Incongruity theory and the Ridiculous. Lists of...

criticize philosophical skepticism based on the claim that it is a self-refuting idea since its proponents seem to claim to know that there is no knowledge...

the "table-turning" argument that maintained Protagoras' doctrine was self-refuting. Peritrope – as the basic objection – has also been used by Greek philosophical...

either self-evident axioms, or evident to the senses (empiricism). However Anthony Kenny and others have argued that this is a self-refuting idea. In modern...

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that arguing against self-ownership results in a performative contradiction. Liar paradox Performative utterance Self-refuting idea Haberman, Jürgen (1990)...

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously Contronym Meinong's jungle Paradox Performative contradiction Principle of contradiction Self-refuting idea Tautology...

are not dreaming. Some critics assert that global skepticism is a self-refuting idea because denying the existence of knowledge is itself a knowledge claim...

seemed to me perfectly self-evident that pleasure is the only good and pain the only evil. Now, however, the opposite seems to me self-evident. This change...

metaphysical scheme. Philosopher Mary Midgley argues that materialism is a self-refuting idea, at least in its eliminative materialist form. Arguments for idealism...

willing to invest in this process, and the medium used to do the refuting. In order to refute one needs the following: Be correct by including all necessary...

system Self-preservation Self-realization Self-reference Self-reference puzzle Self-referencing doomsday argument rebuttal Self-refuting idea Self-Reliance...

Second-order predicate -- Segment addition postulate -- Self-reference -- Self-refuting idea -- Self-verifying theories -- Semantic theory of truth -- Semantics...

(negative) Persuasive definition Poisoning the well Presupposition Self-refuting idea Terry J. Fadem, The Art of Asking: Ask Better Questions, Get Better...

"foundationalism" following Plantinga, arguing that foundationalism is a self-refuting idea. During the 2000s Kenny wrote a history of Western philosophy, released...

The Form of the Good, or more literally translated "the Idea of the Good" (ἡ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέα), is a concept in the philosophy of Plato. In Plato's Theory...

sublatable". In Advaita, Brahman is the substrate and cause of all changes. Refuting samkhya, which considers pradhana or prakriti the material cause (primal...

Asian Buddhists, who wrote critiques of Christianity, often centered on refuting Christian theism. Perhaps the earliest such attempt was that of the Chinese...

government's crackdown on Falun Gong. Barend ter Haar was open to the idea that the self-immolators were Falun Gong practitioners, and postulated that former...

A self-disorder, also called ipseity disturbance, is a psychological phenomenon of disruption or diminishing of a person's minimal self – the fundamental...

cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and/or refute proposed...

designated by the names mind, spirit, soul, or self. Ideas exist by virtue of a perceiver. The existence of an idea consists in being perceived. What is meant...

The self-referential discourse of the Quran is the set of rhetorical forms in which the Qur'an cites itself to varying degrees. These argumentative strategies...

particulars. Refuting their doctrine that disruption of causality is impossible. Refuting their statement that the human soul is a self-sustaining substance...