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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 have our being.
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Epimenides Cretica
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Decidability is impossible. We are back in the land of paradox, with Epimenides declaring that he is a liar and Bertrand Russell upsetting Frege's applecart
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David Leavitt (The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries))
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Moreover, the function of the logical principles is not to guide arguments concerning experience subtended by mathematical systems, but to describe regularities which are subsequently observed in the language of the arguments. To follow such regularities in speech, independently of any mathematical system, is to run the risk of paradoxes like that of Epimenides.
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L.E.J. Brouwer
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Paul did this by quoting two Greek poets to these Athenian philosophers (Acts 17:28). The quotation “In him we live and move and have our being” is probably from Epimenides of Crete, while the quotation “For we are indeed his offspring” is from Aratus’ poem “Phaenomena.” Paul used these Greek poets as a part of his defense and persuasion of the gospel. By taking what they already knew and bringing it to his defense, Paul used God’s revelation in nature to persuade them of what they already knew to be true.