Timeline for Everyone believes everything Joe says. How can he get around it?
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @CodesInChaos Touche! =D | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 14:31 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 6:59 | comment | added | hyde | I don't think people necessarily have problems with paradoxes. I mean, do you believe that sentence is true? If not, what's wrong with believing it is false? I mean, it can't be true, so it is false, right? It even says that in the sentence itself, after all! Easy to believe it is true that the sentence is false. And when that fails, there's always en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 3:29 | comment | added | Gary Walker | @CortAmmon - Mathematicians start off half mad. It seems to me that people might consider this a rhetorical falsehood. They know Joe is telling the truth, but since this statement cannot/must be true it means Joe is using the paradox as a rhetorical device of some sort. This is an easier, non mind-breaking resolution to the paradox. Conflict resolving justifications don't necessarily make sense, but they do make it easier to live with the conflict. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 0:10 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @Philipp I could actually see that as a side effect. Honestly, this process nearly drove several mathematicians mad in the early 1900's. I suppose that's the boobie prize of using the paradox approach: it either works, or it works by driving everyone too mad to understand true from false! | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 0:03 | comment | added | Dave | @Philipp You're assuming a more-than-usual attention to detail and need for logical consistency on the part of Joe's audience. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 22:27 | comment | added | Philipp | When Joe makes a paradoxical statement it could turn people insane because they can't stop thinking about how to interpret it. | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 22:17 | history | edited | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 22:11 | comment | added | Tim B | Well that is why I flagged it rather than mod deleting. You don't explain why a paradox might turn it off or why the effect might last til next time he sees them... | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 22:07 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @TimB Are you sure its not an answer? How would people continue to believe everything he says is true once he has said a paradox? | |
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 22:02 | comment | added | Tim B | Not an answer... | |
| Dec 13, 2015 at 21:07 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |