In a message dated 3/31/2016 3:39:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, McEvoy
writes in "Re: Carry on":
"Having a day without sense data"
This is what I call McEvoy's paradox. In propositional format:
i. McEvoy is having a day without sense data.
Or
ii. I am having a day without sense data.
-- as uttered by McEvoy.
The idea of course, or invited implicature, is:
iii. There are no such things as sense data as Bertrand Russell, and Moore,
and Price used this artificial phrase.
and a further implicature: "No", in answer to
iv. Is there a problem about sense data?
(the title of G. A. Paul's provocative essay).
v. It didn't provoke _me_.
Geary writes in his "Notes on Sense Data, and their Relevance to the
Development of Memphis".
etc.
Cheers,
Speranza
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