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- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!reintjes
- From: reintjes@infonode.ingr.com (Peter Reintjes)
- Subject: Paradoxical Slogan
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.012832.158@infonode.ingr.com>
- Keywords: paradox liars
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:28:32 GMT
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- I saw the following slogan on the side of an oil
- truck today. I thought I would put it to this group
- to classify it for me.
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- Young Oil Company "We Deliver more than we Promise"
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- If you interpret their slogan as some sort of
- a promise. Is the statement: true, false, an
- example of the 'Liars Paradox', a type error, or what?
-
- Actually, I posted this more for amusment than anything.
- I'm not trying to apply logic to the field of advertising.
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- - Peter Reintjes pbr@quine.sofla.ingr.com
-