Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-05 Thread Sarad AV
hi, I guess inspite of all these questions-I will wait till I get to see a real one.But how will I know if it was a real alien? what if we are being tricked-If I could go back in time along with a projector that projects a holographic image of an alien and trick our ancestors to beleive that

Re: CDR: Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > So does the fermi paradox mean that there are no extra > > terrestrials.Can't we throw away this paradox like > > every other paradox? > > It's easier to assume we don't know what we're looking for. That's not a >

Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > So does the fermi paradox mean that there are no extra > terrestrials.Can't we throw away this paradox like > every other paradox? It's easier to assume we don't know what we're looking for. That's not a paradox at all. If you measure the same thing under d

Re: CDR: Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > There has been much speculation around Fermi's famous > question: "Where are they? Why haven't we seen any > traces of intelligent extraterrestrial life?". One way > in which this question has been answered (Brin 1983) > is that we have not seen any traces of

Re: Liars Paradox & Fermi paradox

2003-01-04 Thread Sarad AV
ow away this paradox like every other paradox? Regards Sarath. --- Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > > > As it says-they are self referecial > statements.What do > > we learn from the liars paradox? > > > > We

Re: Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sarad AV wrote: > As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do > we learn from the liars paradox? > > We arrive at a senseless result-doesn't all other > paradoxes do that-with the difference that they pick > only either true or false-

Re: Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Jim Choate
> we learn from the liars paradox? > > We arrive at a senseless result The result isn't 'senseless', it is a understandable and -real world- sentence. It however isn't 'true' or 'false' which was our original a

Liars Paradox

2003-01-03 Thread Sarad AV
) is false; but, because the Liar Sentence is saying precisely that (namely that it is false), (1) is true. So (1) is true if and only if it is false. Since (1) is one or the other, it is both. As it says-they are self referecial statements.What do we learn from the liars paradox? We arrive at a