Formal semantics of language and the Richard-Berry paradox

Published 24 Jul 2008 in cs.CL, cs.CC, and cs.LO | (0807.3845v1)

Abstract: The classical logical antinomy known as Richard-Berry paradox is combined with plausible assumptions about the size i.e. the descriptional complexity of Turing machines formalizing certain sentences, to show that formalization of language leads to contradiction.

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