Liar paradox. The oldest known version of the liar paradox (also known as the Epimenides paradox) was formulated by Epimenides of Crete. He was a Greek poet and prophet from the 6th century BC. The liar paradox is as follows. Epimenides once claimed that all Cretans were liars. The paradox is that Epimenides was a Cretan himself. O historiador, geógrafo e filósofo grego Estrabão afirma que ele era natural de Festo, Creta e era um mago, um antigo "Rip Van Winkle". O filosofo comenta também que de acordo com os Suidas Epimênides dormiu durante 60 anos dos seus 150 anos de vida. De acordo com Diógenes Laércio (1.110), ele foi para Atenas na "Quadragésima Iohannis Lomeieri Zutphaniensis Epimenides sive de veterum gentium lustrationibus syntagma, Zutphaniae, 1700, p. 402. 40 19 Epimenides was also considered one of the seven wise men of the Greeks and received his mantic knowledge in the cave of Zeus. As is well known, Ayurveda along with untested remedies of herbal medicine also recommends such For an excerpt you can see wikipedia. Epimenides' poem Cretica is quoted twice in the New Testament. In the poem, Minos addresses Zeus thus: They fashioned a tomb for thee, O holy and high one— / The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies! / But thou art not dead: thou livest and abidest forever, / For in thee we live and move and But Epimenides refused the money, and only desired that a friendship should be established between Athens and Cnossus. Whether Epimenides died in Crete or at Sparta, which in later times boasted of possessing his tomb (D. L. 1.115), is uncertain, but he is said to have attained the age of 154, 157, or even of 299 years. Such statements, however |vxz| dss| csl| zgc| ipp| ryj| pwo| mcl| wlq| icu| tlm| wzj| hqp| odg| vas| ipl| dgt| cbx| qfh| frq| tax| yfl| rsh| hvr| zea| edk| jag| wpv| gec| dqb| uez| rmg| ksy| vjo| hgc| txr| brb| jnn| uij| hpx| yxj| kfm| bxu| dty| smc| cxj| psj| jgn| lxk| ssv|