Self-reference and section 230

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Kjell Öberg, MD, PhD, is Professor of Endocrine Oncology at the Medical Faculty of Uppsala University, Sweden. He is founder and Head of the Endocrine Oncology Clinic and a specialist in endocrinology and internal medicine. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of neuroendocrine tumors. Between 1986 and 1992 he was Clinical Associate Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Re...

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E U R O P E A N C A R D I O V A S C U L A R D I S E A S E 2 0 0 6 1 Mathias Goyen is Chief Communication Officer (CCO) at the University Medical Center in Hamburg, Germany. He was previously Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the University Hospital Essen, Germany. Dr Goyen has edited four books and authored many peer-reviewed articl...

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The term ‘heartsink patient’ is now part of the vocabulary of general practice. But what and where is the heartsink? How should the phenomenon be studied? What are the implications of differing interpretations for general practice? The heartsink patient presents personal, social, and soteriological (pertaining to salvation) problems in physical terms. This poses a fundamental challenge to the p...

Would a "right of reply" f ix Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?

Inclosures, Vagueness, and Self-Reference

In this paper, I start by showing that sorites paradoxes are inclosure paradoxes. That is, they fit the Inclosure Scheme which characterizes the paradoxes of self-reference. Given that sorites and self-referential paradoxes are of the same kind, they should have the same kind of solution. The rest of the paper investigates what a dialetheic solution to sorites paradoxes is like, connections wit...