RE: Paradoxes
October 6, 2008 at 3:01 am
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2008 at 3:05 am by StewartP.)
Many paradoxs are mental constructs
One of the oldest paradoxes ever formed is quoted in the Bible in Titus 1:12
Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars."
You consider the statement thinking, OK, he himself was from Crete. He said "All Cretans are liars" if he is telling the truth, then all Cretans ARE liars, except he's Cretan so he must be lying, but if he's lying, then what he said was true so ......
I find it very revealing the way the paradox is quoted in Titus. The writer has completely missed the point, made a generalised insult out of what was an intellectual exercise and then added to it by misquoting with the stuff about evil, laziness and gluttony.
One of the oldest paradoxes ever formed is quoted in the Bible in Titus 1:12
Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars."
You consider the statement thinking, OK, he himself was from Crete. He said "All Cretans are liars" if he is telling the truth, then all Cretans ARE liars, except he's Cretan so he must be lying, but if he's lying, then what he said was true so ......
I find it very revealing the way the paradox is quoted in Titus. The writer has completely missed the point, made a generalised insult out of what was an intellectual exercise and then added to it by misquoting with the stuff about evil, laziness and gluttony.
'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
