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    Supports→If Protagoras genuinely believes in relativism, arguing for relativism is incoherent

    A position that entails its own falsity from within its own framework cannot be coherently asserted as true even by its proponent.

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    • 1.Self-refuting positions violate the law of non-contradiction, making coherent assertion impossible within classical logic.
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    • 2.A proponent asserting a self-refuting claim performs an illocutionary act that contradicts the proposition's content.
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    • 3.Rational belief requires internal consistency; self-refuting positions undermine their own epistemic justification.
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    • 1.Some self-refuting positions describe real phenomena (like 'I cannot speak') and remain empirically meaningful despite logical issues.
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    • 2.The distinction between a statement's truth-value and its assertability allows coherent utterance of self-refuting claims in certain contexts.
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    • 3.Some positions are self-refuting only from specific frameworks; broader or paraconsistent frameworks may accommodate them coherently.
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