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17 Sep 2011, 2:13 am

You think you can answer every question honestly, huh?

Well is your answer to this question, "No"?



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17 Sep 2011, 6:19 am

No, my answer to that question is not "no".


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17 Sep 2011, 2:26 pm

What?



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17 Sep 2011, 3:33 pm

Jory wrote:
What?

I believe you'd call it meaningless semantics. :wink:


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17 Sep 2011, 3:42 pm

:roll:


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17 Sep 2011, 4:16 pm

Honestly.


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17 Sep 2011, 7:14 pm

42.



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17 Sep 2011, 7:45 pm

DarrylZero wrote:
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17 Sep 2011, 7:53 pm

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17 Sep 2011, 8:00 pm

I can. Whether I choose to is another story. :wink:


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17 Sep 2011, 10:11 pm

DarrylZero wrote:
42.


84, I'm double right 8)


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18 Sep 2011, 5:04 am

You have to be honest with this question:

Well is your answer to this question, "Yes"?

Raymond Smullyan's book "The Riddle of Scheherazade" is packed with fun tortuous riddled logic.

I'm still looking for the "most ordinary" paradox along the lines of Russell's Paradox (Postman Paradox, Antinomy), paradoxes set with the traps of set theory and an infinity hidden as an implicit contradictory circle seemingly finite, or blatantly infinite.

One favorite "finite" one is: "If you visit Lake Disappointment in Australia to verify your strong opinion that it is the most aptly named geographic landmark ever named, will you be disappointed?"

Three "blatantly" infinite views are:
"Led like Vico and Nietzsche by the fascination of logic, Siger played with the dismal doctrine of eternal recurrence: since (he argued) all earthly events are ultimately determined by stellar combinations, and the number of these": "The Age of Faith" by Will Durant (1950), page 957 (books-dot-google, search "dismal doctrine Durant"),

"Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same" by Karl Löwith (1997),

and, the Greek philosopher blamed for it ("traces back at least to Heraclitus"), with the tweak of frequencies of every physically possible event (a finite set?) in the "Eternal Modified Recurrence" (If I pick the winning lotto number once every 115 million recurrences, can such a possible set of "winning" occurrences (again of infinite recurrences, just "smaller"(?)) be given a better "Cantor" characteristic of any invention?).

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18 Sep 2011, 11:54 am

This is my answer.



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18 Sep 2011, 12:07 pm

XLII



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18 Sep 2011, 9:14 pm

My answer to the question is, "What question? You haven't asked me a question to answer yet."


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18 Sep 2011, 9:18 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:
My answer to the question is, "What question? You haven't asked me a question to answer yet."


Their question is actually, "do you think you can answer every question honestly", and after which they'll probably ask a lot of questions of the sort as "have you stopped beating your wife?" or other similar ones falling under the category of Plurium Interrogationum. It's just yet another bait thread.