paradoxes

If you're not familiar with the Liars Paradox (which I will refer to as "LP" in this thread), a quick read on google should make it clear. The paradox is as follows: "this statement is false". This is linguistically interesting, since it leads to an eternal regression where the statement ends...

Before beginning, I freely admit that I can see over the water, have no life preserver, and am getting tired from treading, but am not quite in over my head. I recently read Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos. In it, there is a description of an experiment that basically depicts...

There was a thread about Newcomb's paradox before which I participated in. However the thread seems to have disappeared. I can't remember what conclusions I had before, but since last night I have been thinking about it, and I have concluded that it necessarily refutes determinism and therefore...

The Newtonian model of the universe is often described as a clock work universe; everything works in a way that matches our everyday experience. Gravity is a force pulling everything together, time marches forward in a consistent manner for everyone, and a few elegant principles can explain...

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think I've figured out why achilles never actually overtakes the tortoise by most calculations. It's because we're thinking of Achilles and the tortoise as points, not as figures that take up space. Two points can always get closer to each other...