The Roman Empire » Paradoxes http://hroman.com No, not THAT Roman Empire Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:50:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like Some Sort Of Honey Producing Arthropod http://hroman.com/float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-some-sort-of-honey-producing-arthropod/ http://hroman.com/float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-some-sort-of-honey-producing-arthropod/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:28:40 +0000 hroman http://hroman.com/?p=1386



This past Sunday, two athletes added to their already legendary dominance. In honor of their achievements, here’s a quiz that requires you to identify athletic “giants” from a variety of sports. You know what to do.

(Yeah, chess may not be a sport, but nerds can dream!)

CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING ATHLETES?

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Tennis Golf Basketball
Baseball American Football Hockey
Auto Racing Swimming Boxing
Football Gymnastics Chess

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]]> http://hroman.com/float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-some-sort-of-honey-producing-arthropod/feed/ 2 Speaking With Forked Tongue http://hroman.com/speaking-with-forked-tongue/ http://hroman.com/speaking-with-forked-tongue/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:50:27 +0000 hroman http://hroman.com/?p=1273 The following is a set of language contradictions collected by Bryan Bunch in his book, “Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes”:

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde

We have met the enemy, and he is us. – Walt Kelley

Please ignore this notice. – (Graffiti)

All Cretans are liars. – Epimenides (who was a Cretan himself)

The statement I am making is false. – Eublides

That last quote is also known as the Liar’s paradox, variations of which, like “this statement is false,” or “I am a liar,” and the following dialogue, are common:

Socrates: What Plato is about to say is false.
Plato: Socrates has just spoken truly.

Other playful paradoxes of language mentioned in Bunch’s book:

This sentence is French.

“Yields a false conclusion when appended to its own quotation” yields a false conclusion when appended to its own quotation. – Quine

“Is not the title of any book, so far as I know” is not the title of any book, so far as I know. – Douglas Hofstadter

Has your brain exploded yet?

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