 It’s a familiar position in the philosophy of logic to respond to the inconsistency that arises from supposing that (L) is either true or false—if it is, it isn’t and if it isn’t, it is—that the sentence (L) isn’t meaningful, despite superficial appearances (see, for a useful introduction to these issues, Sainsbury 1995: 111–33). According to Rodriguez-Pereyra, because (M) is akin to the Liar sentence there’s no reason to suppose that (M) is meaningful either. But if (M) isn’t meaningful then (M) certainly can’t be true; in which case (M) can’t be a counterexample to maximalism either.