vestal@uw-beaver.UUCP (04/27/83)
Relay-Version:version B 2.10 gamma 4/3/83; site burl.UUCP Posting-Version:version B 2.10 gamma 4/3/83; site uw-beaver Path:burl!spanky!ihnp4!houxm!npoiv!npois!hou5f!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!vestal Message-ID:<548@uw-beaver> Date:Tue, 26-Apr-83 23:24:40 EDT Organization:U of Washington Computer Science I've always been interested in paradoxes; if you've got any interesting ones, I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to send it via mail. You can skip the following, which I know of: Epimenides', Zeno's, Ricard's, Russel's. It seems curious that Zen would espouse learning through the resolution of koans -- after all, some of the more interesting structures of mathematics (I'm thinking of the irrational numbers and uncountable infinities) came about as the resolution of outstanding paradoxes. I seem to recall a quote in which Einstein said his research was prompted by some paradoxical thought experiments.