RE: Paradoxes
October 6, 2008 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2008 at 10:41 am by StewartP.)
But if he was lying (coz he's a Cretan) when he said Cretans always lie, that means Cretans DON'T always lie, so maybe he WASN'T lying, which means.....
from wikipedia:
from wikipedia:
Quote:In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox, known to the ancients as the pseudomenon, encompasses paradoxical statements such as "This sentence is false." or "The next sentence is false. The previous sentence is true." These statements are paradoxical because there is no way to assign them a consistent truth value. If "This statement is false" is true, then what it says is the case; but what it says is that it is false, hence it is false. On the other hand, if it is false, then what it says is not the case; thus, since it says that it is false, it must be true.
'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jer 8:8
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
