>> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html