Paradigms, Self - reference, and Paradoxes in Language and Logic
1. Paradigm Paradox
The concept of the paradigm paradox can be summarized by the statement: “one sentence can never describe the paradigm in another, unless it ceases to be a paradigm.” For instance, we cannot say that a group of strokes serving as a paradigm of 3 consists of 3 strokes, or that the standard metre rod is or is not one metre long, or that the standard sepia sample is or is not this colour.
To understand why we can’t say the standard metre is one metre long, we need to consider the act of comparison. Being one metre long means having the same length as the standard metre when compared, and there must be a standard method of comparison. Saying the standard metre is one metre
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