Performative Contradiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_contradiction

From the page:

A performative contradiction arises when the propositional content of a statement contradicts the noncontingent presuppositions that make possible the performance of the speech act, such as occurs with "all statements must be false."


My friend Rick thinks that newness and the concept of newness is like this because we force newness into a hole which can only be compared to the old. But we don't want to compare to the old, so we have failed in our endeavor.