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Posted by Ben C on 06/11/07 20:44
On 2007-06-11, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
>> On 2007-06-11, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>> In article <slrnf6pctg.4ka.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
>>> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
[...]
>>>> > There are exceptions to every rule. <g>
>>>>
>>>> The exception to that rule is that some rules have no exceptions. :)
>>>
>>> Actually, this is quite an interesting idea, as in paradoxical
>>> (as in it makes the head hurt thinking about it).
>>
>> It's a good one. I think it's called a Goedel sentence.
>
> Anyone in here ever read Doug Hofstadter's "Gφdel, Escher, Bach: An
> Eternal Golden Braid"? It's what got me into computers/computing as a
> hobby, way back. And what actually got me thinking, again, after I'd
> been out of college for a while. More than when I'd been *in* college,
> come to think of it.
No but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the links, that Gary Felder
site is very good.
> http://tal.forum2.org/geb
>
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/papers/godel.html
>
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