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Self-contradictory looping statements

The Knowledge +1

20:42 / 23.01.02

A friend once said to me "a wise man can learn a lot from a fool, but a fool can't learn anything from the wise man".

And I figured it out: the wise man learns he IS the fool.

What do you think?

[ 23-01-2002: Message edited by: The Knowledge ]

Hush

02:49 / 24.01.02

Fools don't know that they are foolish. Wisey's are always willing to consider the possibility.

Jackie Susann

03:50 / 24.01.02

I think the point is that wisdom means learning all the time, whereas a fool is someone who doesn't know how to learn...

pointless and uncalled for

10:35 / 24.01.02

This is suprisingly close to one of the tenet's of Sufism.

If I remember correctly, and I may be wrong but one of the steps towards wisdom is to understand how little you know.

Thus the phrase, wisdom of idiots, which is where I nicked it from.

Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?

10:43 / 24.01.02

Socrates said that the wise man is he who knows that he knows nothing.

Fucking ignorant pug-nosed schemie.

Rage

16:23 / 24.01.02

Every statement is self contradictory and looping if you try hard enough. Even this one.

Ganesh

17:20 / 24.01.02

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05:32 / 25.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Rage has evolved baby:
Every statement is self contradictory and looping if you try hard enough. Even this one.

Hmm...I don't think so.

Every statement is likely meaningless when analyzed to the breaking point, but it doesn't seem that a statement like:

"This apple is red."

can become self-contradictory and looping in the way that the statement:

"This sentence is false."

is.

Mobius strips and Klein bottles,
42 * (1/2) = 1 (mod 5)

SMS

01:15 / 26.01.02

quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Rain:
Socrates said that the wise man is he who knows that he knows nothing.

I know Socrates knows nothing.

Regarding the wisdom on wisdom, it's that the world is like a book is like a mirror. You see in others a reflection of your own mind.

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04:57 / 26.01.02

quote:Originally posted by SMatthewStolte:
...it's that the world is like a book is like a mirror. You see in others a reflection of your own mind.

Ah, the ugly truth...

—| x |—

05:00 / 26.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Prodigal son:
What's to say that the red isn't the apple?

That might be, but how is that self-contradictory?

Show me the circle!
49 - (2^3) = 1 (mod 5)

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