“"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.”

— Willard van Orman Quine

Quine's paradox, in "The Ways of Paradox" in "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays" (1976)
1970s

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American philosopher and logician 1908–2000

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