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This paper was written in the autumn of 1970, and read at the University of New York at Buffalo and at Princeton University. It has since had some circulation in xerox form, and several people have developed the ideas in various directions; I thought, nevertheless, that it might be of interest to make the article generally accessible, particularly as others have not been so concerned with the application to strict finitism. Since I have had the benefit of seeing some of the later essays, particularly those of Dr Crispin Wright, I thought it best to leave the article in its original form, with only the most trifling stylistic changes, although I am well aware that Dr Wright's careful exploration of the topic brings out in much more detail the differences between the various examples. The title relates to an article by Professor Hao Wang which I remember reading in an ephemeral Oxford publication many years ago. I should probably have abandoned it had I published the article sooner, since I never supposed that Professor Wang intended anything but to display the general form of a range of ancient paradoxes; but, since the name has gained some currency, I thought it better to leave it.
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Dummett, M. Wang's paradox. Synthese 30, 301–324 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485048
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485048