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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

regress Lexicography Lexical definition Meta-circular evaluator Self-reference Self-refuting idea Recursive definition Revision theory Tautology Vicious circle...

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

that arguing against self-ownership results in a performative contradiction. Liar paradox Performative utterance Self-refuting idea Kettle logic – Using...

Alternative pleading Logic: Mutual exclusivity Kettle logic Paradox Self-refuting idea Religion: Antinomianism (Christianity) Other: Oxymoron Double bind...

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...

consciousness. Hod Lipson defines "self-modeling" as a necessary component of self-awareness or consciousness in robots. "Self-modeling" consists of a robot...

(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...

properties. The "no-self theory" holds that the self cannot be reduced to a bundle because the concept of a self is incompatible with the idea of a bundle. Propositionally...

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

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

include Labor Britain or socialist Sweden, there would be no difficulty in refuting the connection between capitalism and democracy."; Heilbroner (1991), pp...

of love towards God, others, and the self, often reflected in pastoral teachings or spiritual guidance. The idea of ordo amoris can also be applied to...

not self-refuting since that behaviour remains rational even though it is ultimately self-defeating, i.e. self-defeating does not imply self-refuting. Egoists...

fences. Non-suicidal self-harm is common with 18% of people engaging in self-harm over the course of their life.: 1  Acts of self-harm are not usually...

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...

enacted by some states and tribes. While native communities have always self-policed and spread word of frauds,[citation needed] mainstream media and...

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

Memmi's arguments for racism as a social construct were important in refuting the notion of science as a basis for racist thought. À contre-courants...