American philosopher Saul Kripke suggests that a natural language can contain its own truth predicate without it being a paradox. That some sentences are neither true nor false.
Take an expression that does not contain is true, e.g. The barn is big and define the truth of that expression. Then extend the definition of truth to include sentences that predicate truth or falsity of the original expression. So The barn is big is true. Next, define the truth for all sentences that predicate truth or falsity of the new expression. Imagine this process repeated infinitely, so that truth is defined for The barn is big; then for The barn is big is true; then for The barn is big is true is true, and so on.
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