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melloyellow582
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The fact that is IS a paradox makes it not a paradox. The sentence (if it can define itself, which is another matter entirely) basically states that it is a paradox; however, a paradox is basically something that doesn't make sense. So, logically it is true that if the sentence is not a shrimp (which it is not), it "must" be a paradox. That leads to the problem, because a paradox shouldn't make sense. That means that the sentence is NOT a paradox after all! Still, I am fairly confident that the sentence still is not a shrimp.

Again, it is very silly and doesn't stand have much true intellectual merit, but it is fun.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 03:45 UTC
SolidKAYOS
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2007 Jun 24 • 84
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Exactly
Make awkward sexual advances, not war.
Down Rodeo said:
Dammit, this was the one place that didn't have this, but noooooo, molkman pisses all over that
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 03:49 UTC
melloyellow582
The Original Portmanteau

Brisk.
2005 Mar 22 • 12862
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Thanks.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 03:54 UTC
SolidKAYOS
Count Adelaide

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melloyellow582 said:
Thanks.

No i meant exactly my point from the other truck that..ya.
Make awkward sexual advances, not war.
Down Rodeo said:
Dammit, this was the one place that didn't have this, but noooooo, molkman pisses all over that
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 04:12 UTC
Down Rodeo
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2007 Oct 19 • 5486
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Well, I'd break it into a question of semantics. "If this statement is not X, it is Y", is basically all it says.

if(not(X))then(Y)

Has a table that looks a little like this:
code
X Y | Statement
T T | T
T F | T
F T | T
F F | F


This looks the way it is because of the NOT X. So, we can see that the bottom case of X false and Y false corresponds to the case where the sentence is not a shrimp but is a paradox. This evaluates to a sentence that is false overall. Sorted!
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 09:08 UTC
aaronjer
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2005 Mar 21 • 5102
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melloyellow582 said:
]The paradox itself states: "If this statement is not a shrimp, then it is a paradox."

What makes this statement untimely confusing is the fact that it is not a shrimp. This would have us conclude that it is a paradox.


I have a problem with this. I would not be haved to conclude any such thing. I'd be all like, "It is not a shrimp, it is also not a paradox. It is just wrong."
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 11:59 UTC
Down Rodeo
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aaronjer said:
I have a problem with this. I would not be haved to conclude any such thing. I'd be all like, "It is not a shrimp, it is also not a paradox. It is just wrong."

Which is what I said, but in logic-speak. Didn't exactly make that clear, did I?
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 13:32 UTC
aaronjer
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"I" knew what you meant.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 14:13 UTC
Down Rodeo
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2010 Nov 9 at 14:16 UTC
molkman
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Down Rodeo said:
if(not(X))then(Y)

Has a table that looks a little like this:
code
X Y | Statement
T T | T
T F | T
F T | T
F F | F

I don't quite get your table. What does X - True, for example, mean? That it is a true statement?
LET LOVE REIGN
 
 
 
2010 Nov 9 at 17:12 UTC — Ed. 2010 Nov 9 at 17:13 UTC
Down Rodeo
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Sorry, it was the best truth table I could do at the time. Basically, we have two logical variables, X and Y. The values underneath X and Y denote whether we take them as true or false; the next column is basically ¬X -> Y.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 10 at 00:47 UTC — Ed. 2010 Nov 10 at 00:47 UTC
melloyellow582
The Original Portmanteau

Brisk.
2005 Mar 22 • 12862
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Bump!
 
 
 
2010 Nov 11 at 21:55 UTC
Down Rodeo
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2010 Nov 11 at 22:34 UTC
melloyellow582
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Brisk.
2005 Mar 22 • 12862
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I totally agree that logically, it is easy to define something like a bale of hay, but practically it is both ridiculous and almost impossible to do.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 11 at 22:37 UTC
Down Rodeo
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2010 Nov 12 at 00:07 UTC
melloyellow582
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Brisk.
2005 Mar 22 • 12862
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Oh! Right. Different topic.


 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 00:46 UTC — Ed. 2010 Nov 12 at 00:46 UTC
melloyellow582
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Brisk.
2005 Mar 22 • 12862
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Of course it is a false sentence. That's why it's fun!
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 00:48 UTC
melloyellow582
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Brisk.
2005 Mar 22 • 12862
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Triple post!


John Locke time:

Quote:
If a man born blind, and able to distinguish by touch between a cube and a globe, were made to see, could he now tell by sight which was the cube and which the globe, before he touched them?
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 00:51 UTC
sprinkles

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melloyellow582 said:
The fact that is IS a paradox makes it not a paradox. The sentence (if it can define itself, which is another matter entirely) basically states that it is a paradox; however, a paradox is basically something that doesn't make sense. So, logically it is true that if the sentence is not a shrimp (which it is not), it "must" be a paradox. That leads to the problem, because a paradox shouldn't make sense. That means that the sentence is NOT a paradox after all! Still, I am fairly confident that the sentence still is not a shrimp.

Again, it is very silly and doesn't stand have much true intellectual merit, but it is fun.

But, couldn't the actual paradox be that the sentence is a paradox? I mean, its a paradox that a paradox makes sense?

I'm a worker not a thinker. Whenever somebody has something that needs to be built or whatever, I sit back and let them work out the details. I jus' pick up a hammer and start nailing stuff together. I guess that makes me Mexican?
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 02:47 UTC — Ed. 2010 Nov 12 at 02:48 UTC
the_cloud_system
polly pushy pants

2008 Aug 1 • 3081
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Quote:
If a man born blind, and able to distinguish by touch between a cube and a globe, were made to see, could he now tell by sight which was the cube and which the globe, before he touched them?

you learn it in a school like normal children
I drink to forget but I always remember.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 02:58 UTC
Rockbomb
Dog fucker (but in a good way now)

2009 Nov 14 • 2045
What language do deaf people think in?
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 03:31 UTC
the_cloud_system
polly pushy pants

2008 Aug 1 • 3081
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so said the mute man to the def dog
I drink to forget but I always remember.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 05:46 UTC
aaronjer
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sprinkles said:
But, couldn't the actual paradox be that the sentence is a paradox? I mean, its a paradox that a paradox makes sense?


Just because something claims it is a paradox doesn't make it a paradox.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 06:17 UTC
Zarathustra
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2005 May 1 • 315
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You want a paradox? I’ll give you a fuckin’ paradox!




Thus spoke Zarathustra.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 06:31 UTC — Ed. 2010 Nov 12 at 06:32 UTC
Down Rodeo
Cap'n Moth of the Firehouse

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Very nice.

Yes, I reckon if he thought about it he could. Spheres have no discontinuities but cubes do, so I guess using that knowledge you could. I was going to make arguments about visualising based on the data from your hands, but that's not correct.

Rockbomb: I'd assume something visual, maybe, like "seeing"text, but you're right, head asplode.
 
 
 
2010 Nov 12 at 09:21 UTC
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