ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A GENERAL PURGE OF SELF-REFERENCE

My aim in this paper is to gather some evident in favor of the view that a general purge of self-reference is possible. I do this by considering a modal-epistemic version of the liar Paradox introduced by Roy Cook. using yabloesque techniques, I show that it is possible to transform this circular paradoxical construction (and other constructions as well) into an infinitary construction lacking any sort of circularity. moreover, contrary to Cook's approach, I think that this can be done without using any controversial multi-modal rules, i.e., the usual rules from normal epistemic and modal logic are enough to show the paradoxicality of the infinitary construction.