Re: logical paradoxes

From: Traveler (traveler_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:53:43 -0400

In article <d7ba1f79.0408171648.46943b4e@posting.google.com>,
poohonlsd@yahoo.com (Acid Pooh) wrote:

>Traveler <traveler@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<0lf4i0dv74bnot9rkf97hrd2o0p29h9g6s@4ax.com>...
>> In article <gwqUc.25867$mD.23792@attbi_s02>, patty
>> <pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net> wrote:
>>
>> >dan michaels wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> And as Bateson would say, the reason why classical Aristotelian logic
>> >> doesn't do a very good job at describing causal systems is because
>> >> it's static and doesn't account very well for temporal effects. As
>> >> Bateson sees it, once you take into account temporal, then the usual
>> >> logical paradoxes go away.
>> >
>> >Right on! To be more specific examine the sentence:
>> >
>> > "P and If this sentence is true, then it is false;
>> > if the sentence is false, then it is true."
>> >
>> >where P is any proposition. Not that P blinks back and forth between
>> >true and false relative to some observer *if* their logic is not static
>> >but allows for temporal changes in truth functionality.
>>
>> Yes. The problem is that "sentence" cannot refer to itself because the
>> sentence is sequential construct that does not exist at the time of
>> the reference.
>>
>> As an aside, the same temporal/causal considerations can be used to
>> invalidate Godel's famous Incompleteness Theorem. Although Godel
>> occupies an important place in the parthenon of the cult of modern
>> science, the man was a total nut case. Godel is one of the most often
>> quoted mathematicians of the world, yet his work is completely
>> inconsequential. But then again, what can one expect from a believer
>> in time travel. As I write somewhere on my site, the only thing
>> incomplete was Godel's frontal lobe.
>>
>
>This is retarded.

Why don't you pack some acid up your ass?

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