<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Meant to post this.<br><br>Joe Campbell</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: Logical paradoxes</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Very clever Ralph.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember this one from when I grew up: "Always" and "never" are two words you should always remember never to say.<br><br>Joe Campbell</div><div><br>On Apr 26, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Ralph Nielsen <<a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu"></a><a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu"><a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu">nielsen@uidaho.edu</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I just happened to run across this little tidbit from something that proclaims itself as MOSCOW EDUCATION (IDAHO); <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; ">EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, STATISTICS, REPORTS, AND COMMENTARY FROM MOSCOW, IDAHO, by some-one who calls himself Right-Mind.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">In the Moscow Pullman Daily News:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">There is only one absolute truth: "There is no 'absolute truth.' " Lovers of wisdom have known this for centuries.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">—<b>Ralph Nielsen, Moscow</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Maybe that statement is embraced by Nielsen; but he would fail 8</font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "> grade logic for making such an illogical statement.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">*****************************************************************************</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; ">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. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">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, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Maybe that statement is embraced by Paul, in his letter to Titus; but he would fail 8</font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "> grade logic for making such an illogical statement."</font></span></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; ">Ralph Nielsen</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p></span></span></font></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></body></html>