Is the self all that can be known to exist?

[Angrboda]

Why is it one or the other?  Responding with "it cannot be self contradictory" begs the question.

No it doesn't because something either is or is not. That's the premise.

That's not a premise.  That's an assertion, and a very questionable one.  You are simply begging the question.

Paradox exists, they are self contradictory.  We imagine that they are this way due to subtle fallacy, but it;s difficult to pin down which fallacy it might be, and not all dialetheisms could conccievably be answered with the same fallacy assuming some -were- answerable in this manner.

Dude, the premise starts with A=A. The paradox wouldn't even arise without it. It arises because of the limits of our language. Whatever is is, whatever is not is not. "Something is and is not at the same time in the same respects" literally makes no sense.

"This statement is true and false at the same time" makes no sense.

"This statement is false" is either true or not. It appears true when we consider it false and appears false when we consider it true but either way it's only true or false at one particular time from one particular perspective. It's the limits of language.

I can simply respond with "What statement? Your statement is incomplete."

You can respond any way you like, but labeling certain statements as non-statements simply because it plays havoc with your assumptions about logic simply smacks of special pleading.  It's a complete statement, it is truth apt, and there is no equivocation.  (Equivocation has to do with the meaning of a word or phrase, not one's viewpoint.  If I evaluate a logical statement with 64 truth table values, am I equivocating 64 times?  Pure bollocks.)


"Albeit in common parlance it is used in a variety of contexts, when discussed as a fallacy, equivocation only occurs when the arguer makes a word or phrase employed in two (or more) different senses in an argument appear to have the same meaning throughout."  ~ Wikipedia