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  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Yes you are... But I was hoping to start a discussion on whether or not the third error is untrue. Or is it? Cleverly yours, theirs, and everybody's, --Electro-- (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) This is a restating of the "Liar Paradox" a la "Everything I say is a lie." If I recall my Logic course correctly, a statement of that sort has no distinct truth value one way or the other, in that (in context) it cannot be definably true or (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) I agree. c.f. Goedel. This statement has the truth value "undecidable" (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) I'm sorry, but my knowledge of Goedel is incomplete. Dave! (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Mine is inconsistent. Andrew (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Yes, it is untrue. There should be two spaces after the period, not one. Of course you could argue that the spaces are not part of the sentence. :) Cheers, (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) I wasn't able to predict you'd say that, given the premises available to me in this frame of reference! ++Lar (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Not generally true in common internet style. Furthermore, *defintely* not true when using proportionally-spaced fonts. With e-mail and news, everybody should be using a monospaced font, so using two spaces is acceptable [1], but if you're (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) That's an out-dated concept taught by keyboarding instructors who were originally taught on fixed-width font systems e.g. typewriters. There is no longer a need to extend distances between the end of one sentence and the beginning of another, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Not to mention that modern word processing software takes cares of inter-sentence spacing by itself. The typing of a second space is a wasted keystroke. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Or, uh, e-mail and usenet news (like lugnet), which should *always* use fixed-width fonts. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) But, reading lugnet on the web, it doesn't. -Shiri (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Yeah, I've got mixed feelings about that. :) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) I've always hated it. Historically, the reason it uses Times Roman (or else the browser's default) rather than Courier (or whatever <PRE> results in) is because the default fixed-width font in both NN & MSIE on low-end 640x480 displays (common (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) Well, I'll have to disagree with you on that one. I always put two spaces in between sentences and I always will. I find that it looks cleaner anyway. Cheers, Tom (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat
 
(...) You're welcome to. Just be aware that you're wrong. :) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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