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"This sentence is wrong"

This poll reminds me namely that sophism.

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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Re: Re: This poll has:
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 26, 2002 at 08:34 UTC

    94% of statistics are made up.

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      Which is proven by a statistic :-)
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      Dr. Mark Ceulemans
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      IT Masters, Belgium
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        Exactly! Someone got the joke. I can die happy now :)

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      Never trust any statistic unless you have forged it by yourself...

      Best regards,
      perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

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      Hrmmm....I always thought that 99% of all statistics are made up.....Or was it 96%...ok...94% is probably close enough :)

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Re: Re: This poll has:
by arturo (Vicar) on Jan 07, 2003 at 22:22 UTC

    Hrm, in dismissing it as a "sophism" you're missing out on a rich field of study. I maintain, on the contrary, that the "Liar Paradox" is as yet to receive a satisfactory treatment that is adequate for natural languages.

    If not P, what? Q maybe?
    "Sidney Morgenbesser"

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