Relevance of the Yablo paradox

Abstract

There is an ongoing debate about a paradox introduced by Stephen Yablo. Yablo originally introduced his paradox to challenge the belief that self-reference is essential to liar-like paradoxes. After looking closely at the specification of the paradox, I conclude that Yablo did not succeed in challenging this claim. His paradox is, just like the Liar paradox, self-referential. This means that the Yablo paradox is less helpful to finding solutions to logical paradoxes than Yablo hoped. His paradox is just another self-referential semantic paradox.