Re: What was that about Y-G-WILL-V?

From: John English <john_at_theenglishs.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:44:37 -0000


> That isn't a paradox. Going back in time and getting your
> grandmother pregnant with your father isn't a paradox. Going back in time
> and killing your grandmother before your father is born is a paradox.

Not necessarily - in logic a paradox is a statement that is either self contradictory (your interpretation) or one that contradicts the primary axioms: a primary axiom is causality, every effect has a cause. Yet this or any similar histeresis clearly breachs the axiom of causality because it is impossible to say where it begins - hence it is a paradox in the second sense.

John


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