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Paradoxes and Oxymorons

Started by Joe, November 07, 2006, 10:29:27 AM

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rabbit

Quote from: unTactical on November 07, 2006, 08:07:47 PM
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.

Chavo

You just proved my point, you're assuming something but not making the claim within the statement ;)

Towelie

how about this one: Sexy Niggers

BigAznDaddy

Quote from: Towelie on November 08, 2006, 04:37:29 PM
how about this one: Sexy Niggers

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

Sidoh

I think Deuce would more effectively mentally torture him. :P

d&q

I wouldn't sexually touch a Klan member. But that hurt Towelie. It hurt.  :'(
The writ of the founders must endure.

Towelie

Quote from: Deuce on November 08, 2006, 09:54:57 PM
I wouldn't sexually touch a Klan member. But that hurt Towelie. It hurt.  :'(
:P GG.

Super_X

#22
I think my favorite oxymoron is what Joe was trying to achieve:
You're special, just like every one else.

Sidoh

Quote from: Super_X 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.

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.

Super_X

Quote from: Sidoh on November 13, 2006, 08:25:10 PM
Quote from: Super_X 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.

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.

Sidoh


Super_X


Ergot

Quote from: Newby on February 26, 2006, 12:16:58 AM
Who gives a damn? I fuck sheep all the time.
Quote from: rabbit on December 11, 2005, 01:05:35 PM
And yes, male both ends.  There are a couple lesbians that need a two-ended dildo...My router just refuses to wear a strap-on.
(05:55:03) JoE ThE oDD: omfg good job i got a boner thinkin bout them chinese bitches
(17:54:15) Sidoh: I love cosmetology

Super_X

Quote from: Ergot on November 14, 2006, 10:21:31 PM
Quote from: Sidoh on November 14, 2006, 10:18:29 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.

Sidoh

Quote from: Super_X on November 14, 2006, 10:26:18 PM
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