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in love with paradoxes!
Friday, September 26, 2008 today's lesson was on logic and argument, which lead me to come across this word "paradoxes". don't know whats a paradoxes? click here! gone deeper into "paradoxes", got interested in it. simply because , its interesting. I'll show you guys some good ones.(including some from the worksheet) we have ... long ones ... [Barber Paradox (Russell's Paradox) A male barber in a village claims he shaves every adult male villager who does not shave himself. He himself is an adult male and the only barber who lives in the village. Does the barber shave himself?] [Suppose two people, Alice and Bob, are walking towards one another and a bird is flying back and forth between them. When it reaches Alice, it turns around and flies until it reaches Bob, then turns around again until it reaches Alice, and so forth. (Assume the bird takes no time to turn around.) Which direction is the bird facing when Alice and Bob meet? ] and we have short short ones too ... [Nobody goes to that restaurant; it's too crowded. ] [Don't go near the water 'til you have learned how to swim. ] [The man who wrote such a stupid sentence can not write at all. ] [Your mission is not to accept the mission. Do you accept? ] [If you get this message, call me, and if you don't get it, don't call. ] [If the temperature this morning is 0 degrees and the Weather Channel says, "it will be twice as cold tomorrow", what will the temperature be? ] [If someone says "I always lie", are they telling the truth? Or are they lying? ] (Liar Paradox) [Answer truthfully (yes or no) to the following question: Will the next word you say be 'no'? ] [What happens if you are in a car going the speed of light and you turn the headlights on? ] (random messages in between- omg! i just heard some crazy youngsters shouting, in a ah-beng voice "shut up la, your mother is a god damn whore ar!" ... crazy ...) I'm not contradicting, i just love paradoxes =] _______________END_______________ |