Epimenides

[stoutfellow]

"It's a latter-day illustration of the ancient paradox: Cretans always lie, said the Cretan."

Sigh. A Cretan saying that Cretans always lie does not produce a paradox. All that is necessary is to assume that:

• Cretans sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth;
• This particular Cretan, on this particular occasion, is lying.

No paradox. Watch your freaking quantifiers, people!

Comments

Re: pardox

[(Anonymous)]

Understand now. If you specifically say ... always lies then that is not a contradiction. but if you don't mention specifics then it becomes a contradiction. So in the Spock versus the robot episode the robot didn't understand the concept right? Donp