>Doug
>
>>>1) Cretans are liars
>>>2) You are from Crete
>>>Therefore you are a liar.
>
>Actually the above is a reasonable logical conclusion. If you put "all" into point 1 then it would be a certainty.
>
>Try this one:
>
>1) God is infallible.
>2) Therefore there is nothing he cannot do.
>3) Therefore he cannot ask himself a question he cannot answer.
>4) Therefore he is not infallible.
>
>Regards
>
>JR
I think you've just re-proved Godel's "incompleteness" Theorem.
No (axiomatic) system can be both complete and consistent.
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