Frank75
Since: Jan, 2001
Feb 5th 2013 at 8:45:13 AM
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The Other Wiki has Epimenides' original poem too. In case you read this, now all you need is a good dictionary for Ancient Greek.
Fuhrmann, es kostet dir noch dein Leben
JET 73 L: In the Epimenides example, does anyone understand the meaning of the original words? I would like to know if the "are always liars" was originally "are people who always lie" (thus enforcing the paradox) "are always people who lie" (thus negating the paradox), or something more ambiguous, like "are always liars" or leaving enough space in what he said to mean "Cretans are always liars/always lie" with an implied "although I don't count, because I'm not a liar" (as The Other Wiki seems to think is the case in the current incarnation of the Epimenides Paradox article)?
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