John,
> Who is self-referencing, or even acknowledging self-reference?
Gödel and All. It is a major discovery of the 20th century: a
completely clear notion of third person self-reference.
A first person self-reference theory follows naturally, accepting
Theaetetus' definition of knowledge. The first person self, like the
big one, has really no name. No identity card, nor even a body.
Paradoxes and even shit happens when we name them.
Each of the 8 hypostases (or of the 16, ...) can be seen as a notion
of self-reference, but acting on different facet of the arithmetical
reality. There are nameable selves and unnameable one, and they obey
to different logics. More later.
I wish you the best,
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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