so today while doing some reading, i came across the phrase "verbs before nouns", (it was actually the title of a song), and it got me to wondering why the word "noun" is actually a noun, but the word "verb" is not a verb, but is in fact also a noun.
my mind then started to wander a bit more and i began pondering over the accuracy of the statement. if there was a verb in the sentence, and it followed the word verb, it would make the sentence factually incorrect, kind of like as if i was to say "i am a liar, and therefore i always lie".
this is a classic philosophical paradox. if i am always a liar, then by TELLING you that i am always a liar, means that i am telling you the truth, and therefore i am not always a liar, making the accuracy of the statement come into question. but at the same time, i could also be lying by telling you that i always lie, when in fact i am telling you truth, which would mean i am NOT telling you the truth, which would make the statement a lie. kind of circular, no?
does any of this make sense? i am starting to think that i may have just confused myself...........
anyway, if you want to check out more philosophical paradoxes, you can find them here.
9.2.07
verbs before nouns
so today while doing some reading, i came across the phrase "verbs before nouns", (it was actually the title of a song), and it got me to wondering why the word "noun" is actually a noun, but the word "verb" is not a verb, but is in fact also a noun.
my mind then started to wander a bit more and i began pondering over the accuracy of the statement. if there was a verb in the sentence, and it followed the word verb, it would make the sentence factually incorrect, kind of like as if i was to say "i am a liar, and therefore i always lie".
this is a classic philosophical paradox. if i am always a liar, then by TELLING you that i am always a liar, means that i am telling you the truth, and therefore i am not always a liar, making the accuracy of the statement come into question. but at the same time, i could also be lying by telling you that i always lie, when in fact i am telling you truth, which would mean i am NOT telling you the truth, which would make the statement a lie. kind of circular, no?
does any of this make sense? i am starting to think that i may have just confused myself...........
anyway, if you want to check out more philosophical paradoxes, you can find them here.
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Look at this paradox.
There are three false statements. Can you determine them?
1) 2 + 2 = 4
2) 3 * 6 = 17
3) 8 : 4 = 2
4) 13 - 6 = 5
5) 5 + 4 = 9
The answer is: The false statements are 2 and 4. Therefore, the statement that there are three false statements is false and this is the third false statement. Do you agree with this statement? Tricky, isn’t it?
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haha! that is excellent!
you caught me, because i didn't even consider that the third false statement was not in the math.
thanks for that one!
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extraordinary stuff is the most interesting one.
btw, as for your previous post about the weather - yesterday in Bulgaria the temperature was more than plus 20 Celsius. Abnormal even for this country.
Verbs are great.
I love verbs.
The verbs are "to be" and "love". Where is the grammatical paradox?
By the way, what is the square root of minus One?
the square root of minus One is i - the so called complex number.
nothing special, it's just maths. maths and physics is full of paradoxes. from one hand it's logical from the other nonlogical
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