New Thread! (not really):wq

[Darrin Chandler]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:08:09PM -0700, Gene Holmerud wrote:
> His reply was not ignoring it.

I was just being difficult.

> Actually, this is a variation of the famous Kurt Godel conundrum of the  
> following two sentences:
> 
>     The following sentence is true.
> 
>     The preceding sentence is false.
> 
> Godel recognized that both of these could not be resolved logically.  See  
> the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R  
> Hofstadter.  It won an emmy.  Hofstadter is also the one who wrote  
> Hofstader's Rule:  "Everything takes longer than you think, even when you  
> take Hofstadter's Rule into account."  It won a Murphy's Law corollary  
> competition in Omni magazine decades ago.
> 
> Gene

Good recommendation. I've got it laying around here somewhere, but I
haven't picked it up since the early 90's. It's time to read it again,
methinks.

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