[Vision2020] Fwd: Logical paradoxes

[Joe Campbell]

Meant to post this.

Joe Campbell


>> Subject: Re: Logical paradoxes
>>
>
>> Very clever Ralph.
>>
>> I remember this one from when I grew up: "Always" and "never" are  
>> two words you should always remember never to say.
>>
>> Joe Campbell
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Ralph Nielsen <nielsen at uidaho.edu>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just happened to run across this little tidbit from something  
>>> that proclaims itself as MOSCOW EDUCATION (IDAHO); EDUCATIONAL  
>>> RESEARCH, STATISTICS, REPORTS, AND COMMENTARY FROM MOSCOW, IDAHO,  
>>> by some-one who calls himself Right-Mind.
>>>
>>> In the Moscow Pullman Daily News:
>>>
>>> There is only one absolute truth: "There is no 'absolute truth.' "  
>>> Lovers of wisdom have known this for centuries.
>>>
>>> —Ralph Nielsen, Moscow
>>>
>>> Maybe that statement is embraced by Nielsen; but he would fail 8th  
>>> grade logic for making such an illogical statement.
>>>
>>> *** 
>>> *** 
>>> *** 
>>> ********************************************************************
>>>
>>> It would seem that Mr. Right-Mind has never heard of a logical  
>>> paradox. As a matter of fact, I heard this from a graduate of  
>>> Gonzaga University, who said he has never forgotten this humbling  
>>> fact that was taught by his philosophy professor at Gonzaga.
>>>
>>> We can even find a logical paradox in the Bible, "It was one of  
>>> them, their very own prophet, who said, "Cretans are always  
>>> liars..." That testimony is true" (Titus 1:12). As Right-Mind  
>>> would say, "Maybe that statement is embraced by Paul, in his  
>>> letter to Titus; but he would fail 8th grade logic for making such  
>>> an illogical statement."
>>>
>>> Ralph Nielsen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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