There is no set of all truths

Analysis 44 (4):206-208 (1984)
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A Cantorian argument that there is no set of all truths. There is, for the same reason, no possible world as a maximal set of propositions. And omniscience is logically impossible.

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10.1093/analys/44.4.206

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