Dear Ron...
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From: Charlotte
Originally Posted by Scooterboy,Nov 26 2010, 08:34 PM
Dear Ron,
I hope you were well fed for Thanksgiving so that you are ready for more of Mike's odd questions.
Signed,
Fed, Fat and happy on the North Coast
I hope you were well fed for Thanksgiving so that you are ready for more of Mike's odd questions.
Signed,
Fed, Fat and happy on the North Coast
As soon as the tryptophan wears off, I'll be ready for duty.
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From: Charlotte
Originally Posted by Lovetodrive2000,Nov 26 2010, 08:52 PM
Dear Ron:
Can a Jedi lightsaber cut thru Superman?
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May the force be with you, in Cincy
Can a Jedi lightsaber cut thru Superman?
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May the force be with you, in Cincy
Don't you have harder questions?
Yours in unapathetic boredom,
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From: 262 miles N of the Dragon
Dear Ron:
I know my questions are simple..... as I am a simple person!
If a chicken says, "All Chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
Signed,
Can't wait till spring, in Cincy
I know my questions are simple..... as I am a simple person!
If a chicken says, "All Chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
Signed,
Can't wait till spring, in Cincy
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From: Charlotte
Originally Posted by Lovetodrive2000,Nov 27 2010, 06:32 AM
Dear Ron:
I know my questions are simple..... as I am a simple person!
If a chicken says, "All Chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
Signed,
Can't wait till spring, in Cincy
I know my questions are simple..... as I am a simple person!
If a chicken says, "All Chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
Signed,
Can't wait till spring, in Cincy
Self-referencial sentences are fun to play with and sets that contain themselves will get ya every time. Hofstadter has a lot of fun with this in GEB. Highly recommended.
Oh, by the way, this sentence is false.
One of my favorites: What would happen if Pinocchio said "My nose will be growing"?
Ok, so I know I've been indulging in pedantic noodling instead of answering your question but there's a reason we don't solve paradoxes.
Yours in yours,
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From: Charlotte
Originally Posted by Lovetodrive2000,Nov 27 2010, 06:37 AM
Dear Ron:
How confident should you be when taking leaps of faith?
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Standing at the cliffs edge, in Cincy
How confident should you be when taking leaps of faith?
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Standing at the cliffs edge, in Cincy
Or, "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?"
Yours with confidence,
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From: 262 miles N of the Dragon
Originally Posted by Ron,Nov 27 2010, 08:47 AM
Dear Ron:
I know my questions are simple..... as I am a simple person!
If a chicken says, "All Chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
Signed,
Can't wait till spring, in Cincy
Ah, a fun restatement of the well-known Barber's Paradox. I'm sure you know that it was Russell's popularization of his set theoretic Russell's Paradox.
Self-referencial sentences are fun to play with and sets that contain themselves will get ya every time. Hofstadter has a lot of fun with this in GEB. Highly recommended.
Oh, by the way, this sentence is false.
One of my favorites: What would happen if Pinocchio said "My nose will be growing"?
Ok, so I know I've been indulging in pedantic noodling instead of answering your question but there's a reason we don't solve paradoxes.
Yours in yours,
I know my questions are simple..... as I am a simple person!
If a chicken says, "All Chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
Signed,
Can't wait till spring, in Cincy
Ah, a fun restatement of the well-known Barber's Paradox. I'm sure you know that it was Russell's popularization of his set theoretic Russell's Paradox.
Self-referencial sentences are fun to play with and sets that contain themselves will get ya every time. Hofstadter has a lot of fun with this in GEB. Highly recommended.
Oh, by the way, this sentence is false.
One of my favorites: What would happen if Pinocchio said "My nose will be growing"?
Ok, so I know I've been indulging in pedantic noodling instead of answering your question but there's a reason we don't solve paradoxes.
Yours in yours,
Thanks for your valued response..... but.........
I didn't know chickens could talk.... so how could a chicken "say" anything?
Signed,
Confused in Cincy