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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2006, 06:34:57 am »
You're making the assumption that completely true and completely false are the only possibilities but your statement makes no restriction such that the assumption is necessary.  My example restricts all possibilities to completely true or completely false.

"This sentence is false"  can be partially true and partially false and still work ;)
I'm assuming boolean interpretation, where a single thing, as defined by the sentence ("this sentence") is either true or false.  It's explicitly stated that the sentence is talking about the sentence as a whole, not parts of it.

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2006, 09:31:13 am »
You just proved my point, you're assuming something but not making the claim within the statement ;)

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2006, 04:37:29 pm »
how about this one: Sexy Niggers

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2006, 07:38:27 pm »
how about this one: Sexy Niggers

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I bet one of our clan mates is black and is going to "bust a cap in your ass."

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2006, 07:48:00 pm »
I think Deuce would more effectively mentally torture him. :P

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2006, 09:54:57 pm »
I wouldn't sexually touch a Klan member. But that hurt Towelie. It hurt.  :'(
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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2006, 01:46:21 am »
I wouldn't sexually touch a Klan member. But that hurt Towelie. It hurt.  :'(
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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2006, 07:59:06 pm »
I think my favorite oxymoron is what Joe was trying to achieve:
You're special, just like every one else.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2006, 08:07:23 pm by Super_X »

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2006, 08:25:10 pm »
I think my favorite oxymoron is what Joe was trying to achieve:
You're special, just like every one else.

Special isn't a descriptive property.  If you have a box of crayons of all different colors, you could address as single crayon: "You're unique crayon in the box, just like all of the other crayons in the box" and not be presenting it with a paradox.

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #24 on: November 14, 2006, 10:17:10 pm »
I think my favorite oxymoron is what Joe was trying to achieve:
You're special, just like every one else.

Special isn't a descriptive property.  If you have a box of crayons of all different colors, you could address as single crayon: "You're unique crayon in the box, just like all of the other crayons in the box" and not be presenting it with a paradox.
I see your point. But usually if you think just that they are special, and not what is special about them it's a little more enjoyable. I mean, if they're special, and every one else is special, then no one is special. You're splitting up the specalities that every one has, this isn't the point of the lame joke. The point is to re-enforce sterotypes, and that's it.

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #25 on: November 14, 2006, 10:18:29 pm »
Dumb jokes piss me off. :P

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2006, 10:19:19 pm »
Dumb jokes piss me off. :P
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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #27 on: November 14, 2006, 10:21:31 pm »
Dumb jokes piss me off. :P
Black polar bears.
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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2006, 10:26:18 pm »
Dumb jokes piss me off. :P
Black polar bears.
Polar bearsare black.. They have black skin, but they have transparet hair that looks white from the light refracting in it.

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Re: Paradoxes and Oxymorons
« Reply #29 on: November 15, 2006, 12:13:25 am »
Polar bearsare black.. They have black skin, but they have transparet hair that looks white from the light refracting in it.

Their skin is black.  That doesn't mean that a natural, healthy polar bear is black.  I have a nack for getting into stupid arguments.  This was one of them.  That's why Ergot mentioned it. :P