Re: Intuitions, Illusions and Common Sense

Neil W Rickert says...

>When I first came across the liar paradox (as a child), I found it
>amusing.  It never seemed puzzling.  It never seemed that there was
>anything that had to be solved.

Well nothing ever *has* to be solved, but by definition, a paradox
consists of a sequence of reasoning steps that *appear* to be valid,
but which lead to a nonsensical or contradictory conclusion. The
puzzle is to figure which step or steps was invalid.

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Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY