Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!wsinkees
From: wsinkees@eutrc3.UUCP (Kees Huizing)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Fun with the semantics of paradox
Message-ID: <444@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 13:49:52 GMT
References: <905@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Neth.
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From article <905@ubu.warwick.UUCP>, by mirk@warwick.UUCP (Mike Taylor):
> If this is correct, then Dave Peru's original assertion, that the mind
> teeters between considering a paradox to be true or false, is correct
> of ambiguous sentences, but not of undecidable ones - there is an
> analogy here with unstable and unstable equilibrium points of a
> physical system.
In my view, the analogon of an ambiguous sentence is an *indifferent*
equilibrium.

Kees Huizing
Eindhoven Univ of Techn, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sc., Pb 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
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