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Emyrssentry t1_jeb2raq wrote

Reply to comment by degening in ELI5 How Zeno's Paradox is a paradox? by TheFlaccidCarrot

Not all paradoxes can be solved with mathematics.

This sentence is false. That's a paradox as well. It cannot be true nor false. No amount of mathematics can make it true or false, it is a logical impossibility.

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degening t1_jebeeps wrote

This is not a paradox for 2 reasons:

  1. You are assuming language is logically consistent, it is not.

  2. You are assuming logically consistent systems are also complete, they are not.

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urzu_seven t1_jedo7ql wrote

>You are assuming language is logically consistent, it is not.

You declaring something to be true (or not true) does not make it so.

Nor does the paradox (it is a paradox btw, you don't get to unilaterally define what a paradox is or is not and the above is definitely accepted as a valid paradox) depending ALL language being logically consistent, it is, in fact that language can express logically inconsistent statements that allows paradoxes.

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>You are assuming logically consistent systems are also complete, they are not.

This has literally nothing to do with the original statement OR the comment you are replying to.

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