Posted Jan 23, 2001 by chiefaberach
I thought this and the librarian paradox were amazing - really interesting and mindboggling, but how does a simple paradox (or any real life scenario) prove or disprove anything mathematical?
It's like me saying
"If I jump off a 10ft wall, I might break my legs or I might not. Therefore 2 + 2 might equal 4 and it might not."
Wow, I'm a genius, this will herald a new branch of mathematics called the 'scoobied' age.
PS Scoobied is a slang term which comes from the rhyming slang:
haven't got a scooby do (clue)
PPS How do you do those smiley faces?
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Posted Mar 26, 2001 by JK the unwise
>If I jump off a 10ft wall, I might break my legs or I might not.
Actualy its like you saying
'Jump of wall then no walls exist'
or some thing equally bisare.
A self referencal lie is not an abiguity
(like your maybe maby not wall thing)
it is a paradox.
For logic (which is the basis of maths)
to be a definate proof of things it must
all ways be able to surjest alternatives
to paradoxes.
PS  is : - )
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Posted Aug 19, 2001 by Dove
I tihnk it does relate by pure logic. math is by definition of usage a logical system. according to several given statements if a=b then b=a. this is pure logic. yet if in life you encounter a given paradox, then there is a posibility of it to reflect in our math.
please let me know if you understood any of the last paragraph.
another paradox: if you or anyone else can't read this sentence then i owe you 1 point, which will be given to you only if you request it.
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Posted Aug 25, 2001 by JK the unwise
Thats not a paradox its just imposible to
claim.
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Posted Jan 17, 2005 by Weedabix
LOGIC is a MATHEMATICAL system, anything can be expressed in the form of formulae and equations.
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Posted Aug 23, 2007 by  Gnomon [See A60420098 for details of new sign-in system]
Mathematics is a logical system, rather than the other way around, I think.
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Posted Aug 5, 2008 by lostmonalisa is lost no more
and if you click on any smiley, it will take you to the page of smileys, complete with instructions on how to make them.
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