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(October 1, 2016 at 4:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You do a lot just right -- just needs to be said. Hopefully the only thing wrong is how you're viewing it?
I have no idea.
I can't figure these things out, without some help; And I don't ask for it.
So that's that, I guess.
October 1, 2016 at 5:54 am (This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 5:55 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 30, 2016 at 6:59 pm)Gemini Wrote: Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment to get my nails done by a manicurist who manicures everyone who does not manicure themselves.
I spot your more feminine equivalent of the Barber Paradox and I'll raise you with Curry's paradox:
If this sentence is true then you agree that I am awesome as fuck to such a high level, extent and degree that it blows your mind.
Wikipedia Wrote:Paradox. The barber is the "one who shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves." The question is, does the barber shave himself? Answering this question results in a contradiction. The barber cannot shave himself as he only shaves those who do not shave themselves.
Just replace "barber" with "manicure" and you're all set. I spot your philosophically logical humor, Gemini, you can't hide it [emoji6]
Wikipedia Wrote:Claims of the form "if A, then B" are called conditional claims. Curry's paradox uses a particular kind of self-referential conditional sentence, as demonstrated in this example:
If this sentence is true, then Germany borders China.
Even though Germany does not border China, the example sentence certainly is a natural-language sentence, and so the truth of that sentence can be analyzed. The paradox follows from this analysis. The analysis consists of two steps.
First, common natural-language proof techniques can be used to prove that the example sentence is true. (Such proofs will be shown below.)
Second, the truth of the example sentence can be used to prove that Germany borders China. Because Germany does not border China, this suggests that there has been an error in one of the proofs.
The claim "Germany borders China" could be replaced by any other claim, and the sentence would still be provable; thus every sentence appears to be provable, similar to the principle of explosion. Because the proof uses only well-accepted methods of deduction, and because none of these methods appears to be incorrect, this situation is paradoxical.
October 1, 2016 at 6:18 am (This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 6:19 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Can I just say and I'm just being honest:
Hey Thena, would you like to hit me up with a PM?
Shit did I use the thread right? Oh well, I was honest
I love my honor.
etymonline.com Wrote:early 14c., "splendor, honor; elegance," later "honorable position; propriety of behavior, good manners; virginity, chastity" (late 14c.), from Old French oneste, honesté "respectability, decency, honorable action" (12c., Modern French uses the variant honnêteté, as if from Latin *honestitatem), from Latin honestatem (nominative honestas) "honor received from others; reputation, character;" figuratively "uprightness, probity, integrity, virtue," from honestus (see honest). Meaning "moral purity, uprightness, virtue, justness" is from c. 1400; in English, the word originally had more to do with honor than honest.