In a message dated 5/12/99 5:43:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, davepape@dial.pipex.com writes:
> To: virus@lucifer.com
>
> At 16:49 12/05/99 -0500, Joe wrote:
>
> >> What about accept that Truth is an illusion
> >>
> >Do you consider that statement true? ;~)
>
> Must be your favourite joke, Joe:
>
> >At 15:46 09/05/99 -0700, Joe wrote:
> >
> Me: >>> What's the level of agreement on "there is no such thing as
> >>>absolute, knowable, non-cultural-group-specific truth"? I
> >>>think we should start our maxims nihilist & self-
> >>>contradictory, then work our way up.
> >>
> Joe: >>Is that an absolute, knowable, non-cultural-group-specific truth?
> >
> Me: >Hence the "self-contradictory" bit. One of my favourite neural
> >tickles, that- always subscribing to worldviews that know for
> >certain that you can't know anything for certain:
>
> Trouble is, I am deadly convinced that there's no such thing as truth, even
> though the idea shoots itself point blank in the foot. I guess the
> statement "nothing is actually true" is only a hair's breadth from the
> standard logic paradox "This statement is false", which if it's false is
> true and which if it's true is false.
>
>
See old Megarian's Liar's Pair o'ducks then see Strawsons neat solution.