heres a interesting question

[Edgar Lopez]

If you meet a man that tells u every word i utter is a lie. is he telling the truth?

[bolo]

What came first. The chicken or the egg?

[Nakz]

If you meet a man that tells u every word i utter is a lie. is he telling the truth?

Maybe

[Phantim3dx]

did u get this from a psych/logic class?

[alermac]

If you meet a man that tells u every word i utter is a lie. is he telling the truth?

Trick question. He couldn't possibly say that and be right.

[Edgar Lopez]

did u get this from a psych/logic class?

Yeah.

[Basketball GOD]

What came first. The chicken or the egg?

everyone knows that egg came first .. and i am super serious.

[Edgar Lopez]

so if a tree feel in the forest and nobody was around would it make a sound?

[Juan Carlos Nadal]

so if a tree feel in the forest and nobody was around would it make a sound?

Of course it would. This is one of those anthropocentric philosophical riddles that are a complete waste of time in my opionion (not a big fan of Philosophy I have to admit ).

[mktackabery]

Ah, the Epimenides paradox. Such a fun way to pass the time.

Here's the ancient story for those of you who need to get schooled:

1. Epimenides is a Cretan.
2. Epimenides states, "All Cretans are liars."

So, if Epimenides is a Cretan and is telling the truth about that, then he's lying about telling the truth; there is a paradox, right?

Solution here.

[Edgar Lopez]

Of course it would. This is one of those anthropocentric philosophical riddles that are a complete waste of time in my opionion (not a big fan of Philosophy I have to admit ).

how would it make a sound if no one could hear it?

[Juan Carlos Nadal]

how would it make a sound if no one could hear it?

Sound is not defined by the presence of someone to hear it. Sounds are waves that are created invariably when certain physical events occur. Whether there is someone there to hear them is totally irrelevant.

[Juan Carlos Nadal]

Coming back to it:

The problem is how one defines sound. Is it the air waves created from physical events or is it the subjective perception of these wave? (i.e. the conversion of the waves into sensory perception by the cochlea and subequently by the thalamocortical auditory system)?.

I suspect that the person who came up with this question (Whether a falling tree would make a sound if no-one is there to hear it) perceived sound as the latter. In my opinion, sound is not the conversion of the air waves to perception but the waves themselves. A falling tree will invariably (i.e. always) create those waves and therefore will always produce "sound".

[mktackabery]

Coming back to it:

The problem is how one defines sound. Is it the air waves created from physical events or is it the subjective perception of these wave? (i.e. the conversion of the waves into sensory perception by the cochlea and subequently by the thalamocortical auditory system)?.

I suspect that the person who came up with this question (Whether a falling tree would make a sound if no-one is there to hear it) perceived sound as the latter. In my opinion, sound is not the conversion of the air waves to perception but the waves themselves. A falling tree will invariably (i.e. always) create those waves and therefore will always produce "sound".

JC that is a weird avatar.

[-K2-]

its like the question of how you get a giraffe in a freezer

[Joško Poljak Fan]

its like the question of how you get a giraffe in a freezer

with a chainsaw...

[-K2-]

just open the freezer, get the giraffe in the freezer and close the freezer

[LuDux]

just open the freezer, get the giraffe in the freezer and close the freezer

No no no, first you remove elephant from freezer and THEN get the giraffe in

[-K2-]

no, thats when they ask you how to get an elephant in the freezer

[Phantim3dx]

so anyways I took this friggin psych/logic class last summer and absolutely hated it. i saw no point to it. i remember than Cretan example mktingleberry stated that was funny because it got the whole class all in this heated debate for some reason....yes a bunch of cowboys, literally, took it tot he next level; something to do with the cows they were raising in their ranch and its relation to the Cretan point. i just thought it was funny.