Wonderful Wikipedia has a wonderful article about
(wonderfully) the notion of ideas that, logically, self-destruct (but which may
be popularly long-lived, nevertheless).
We polemicised against one of them -- eliminative materialism -- here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-refuting_idea
To this propositional or assertoric notion of a
self-refuting idea, we may add the
illocutionary or pragmatic idea of a self-immolating statement. As:
The current issue of The New Yorker has a worthwhile
demurral by John Lanchester:
Shut Up and Eat:
Down with foodism
Hear, hear.
Only -- that mini-essay appears (ausgerechnet)
in the annual semi-bloated “Food
Issue”, which I hurled into the trash-basket, almost unread.
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