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From: cameron@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz (Cameron Simpson "Life? Don't talk to me about life.")
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Subject: Re: Russell's set of sets which... paradox
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Date: Thu, 6-Aug-87 20:23:07 EDT
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In article <1404@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>campbell@utx1.UUCP (Tom Campbell) writes:
[about paradoxes]
>(Midaeval Catholic, about 1300?):  "Can God make a stone so large that
>he can't lift it?"  

I saw a really nice response to this reading:
	"He would not."
Of course, it doesn't solve anything except in practical terms, but
it was esthetically pleasing.
	- Cameron Simpson

The book was "The Isle of the Dead" by Roger Zelazny.
This article is *not* worth a followup.