Concept

Self-refuting idea

Overview

idea that refutes itself

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Self-refuting idea

• Immanuel Kant
• Anthony Kenny
• Hilary Putnam
• Keith Frankish
• Wolfgang Stegmüller

Related ideas

• Reformed epistemology
• Self-evidence
• Argument
• Norm (philosophy)
• Kurt Gödel
• Individual and group rights
• Logical positivism
• Basic belief
• Materialism
• Mind
• Thomas Aquinas
• Objectivism
• Reductio ad absurdum
• Principia Mathematica
• René Descartes
• Richard Swinburne
• Set theory
• Semantic externalism
• Truth
• Infinite regress
• Anthony Kenny
• Rational egoism
• Circular reasoning
• Cornell University Press

Place in the tradition

Part of Eliminative materialism.

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