...sitting round a table. Smoke filled the room. The dispute had been going on for some hours. The point at
issue was whether or not it was possible, legitimately, to make reference to a collection of things which might
themselves refer to this reference, Aleph maintained that this would clearly lead to an infinite regress which
would deprive the reference of any clear sense. Beth held that though the reference would make sense, the
regress would prevent what was said from being either determinately true or determinately false. Gimmel
disagreed with both of them, To make his point he gave an illustration, and this was the illustration he gave:
There were three philosophers. They were...