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Epimenides' Paradox
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Hi Bar Khela:
In the book, Escher, Godel, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter, it is Kurt Godel that sets forth Epimenides' Paradox or liar paradox (Page 16-18). To encapsulate the idea Godel paraphrases the statement this way.

"All consistent axiomatic formulations of number theory include undecided propositions."

Godel has taken the statement and rephrased it in mathematical terms.

The Apostle Paul, in his short discourse in Titus 1:12, and under the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit, has rebuked the statement of the Cretan philosopher Epimenides.

Epimenides statement...

"All Cretians are liars"

....can only invoke a strange paradoxical loop, a typical relative truth, spoken by those destitute of truth.

vis-a-vis

the absolute truth of God in Christ Whom brings everlasting salvation to the soul of man.

Something to ponder!

Regards,
Stephen Silver
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Epimenides' Paradox - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 04:33 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 05:40 PM
Escher Godel Bach - by nashama - 11-01-2004, 06:18 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-01-2004, 09:32 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 11-01-2004, 09:48 PM
[No subject] - by bar_khela - 11-02-2004, 08:31 PM

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