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An old puzzle says: “Their are three misteaks in this sentence” and asks you to find them. Answer: the third is that there are only two. Clever, but it contains a paradox. If the third error in the sentence is that it contains only two, not three mistakes, then “three” is actually correct, which means it contains only two mistakes, which means “three” is wrong, etc. -- https://frederic-38110.medium.com/the-magic-of-logic-15-46293bb3dfbf

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The Friedel Chronicles
The Friedel Chronicles

Written by The Friedel Chronicles

Frederic Alois Friedel, born in 1945, science journalist, co-founder of ChessBase, studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford.

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