Re: The Case Against RosAsm (#2)

From: Gerhard W. Gruber (sparhawk_at_gmx.at)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:05:51 +0100

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:30:24 -0000 wrote "Beth"
<BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> in alt.lang.asm with
<U4vOb.97$7r2.89@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net>

>If the statement "ALL statements are false" is true, then the
>statement itself says that it cannot be true because all statements
>are false...which itself is a contradiction...and, hence, we have
>"self-reference" and the contradiction is _infinite_...thus, it is a
>_paradox_...

Actually I was answering just for fun. I know very vell, that such statments
are quite useless unless you are talking with a philosopher. Language usually
requires a context, and when you not provide one, then a specific sentence can
be quite meaningless, Thus statements like "This statment is false." or "All
statements are false." are quite menaingless because they lack context. In
your case the context was provided because you listed some statements and this
statement was referencing them which was quite clear to everybody. :)

Its the same with other sentences. In german (I guess in most languages) you
can construct sentences, which have, in isolation, multiple different,
somtimes even contradictory, meanings. Of course, in the the wild you don't
observe such sentences alone, because they are bunched in a pack with other
statements, so that it is quite clear what is meant and the sentence is only
unclear if you pick words. 

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