Abstract

According to ‘paracomplete’ theorists like Hartry Field, there are some sentences (such as sentences that attribute untruth to themselves) about which we should reject the relevant instances of the Law of the Excluded Middle without accepting their negations. The central alleged advantage of this approach over other consistent solutions to the Liar Paradox—for example, the view that Liars have some third truth-value other than ‘true’ or ‘false’—lies in its apparently superior ability to avoid ‘revenge paradoxes’. I argue, however, that this advantage is illusory. The paracomplete theorist faces revenge problems of their own