[lit-ideas] Re: Understanding Why The Compressor Shorted To Ground

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:29:38 -0500

>> Walter following Phil's rebuttal: Not being much of a classicist,
the reference escapes me. Where does the paradox initially rear its ugly
head?


I did a little searching. It's my misconstrual of Buridan's thirteenth
sophism.

A = "I know the compressor shorted to ground is false."

A, therefore, cannot express a true or false statement.

A can't be true, because if it were, I would "know" a falsehood.

If A were false it would be not-A, and therefore A and not-A would be
the same.

So A fails to say anything.

????

Eric
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