Friday, May 1, 2009

Sets Again

As a whole,
the set containing all future possibles
Is itself logically impossible,
Since it cannot be proven to follow
From a prior possibility.
The set cannot be proven
To follow from its contents,
And since the set is all-inclusive,
There are no apriori/aposteriori
Possibilities exclusive of it. However,
conditioned by temporal irreversibility,
The set containing all future possibles
Can be said to follow from prior possibility.
And since the set containing all sets is uncontained,
It is indeterminable.

Without boundaries
There is no in-between.

G.Hall (2003)
p.234
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
ON PARADOXISM

FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)

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Principle of Identity

If X is ever-changing,
When is X self-identical?

(a) Only at rest, and a Here-Now point;
(b) Never;
(c) Always;
(d) All of the Above...

In the Present Moment,
Nothing can be compared to itself.

G.Hall (2003)
p. 232
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
ON PARADOXISM

FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)

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Time Puzzler

What is already
What it is not yet?
(Hint: not the Future Past)
The meta-set which includes the series aggregate
Of all Time points – past, present, future – would be that
Whose singular entirety is already
What its composite parts are not yet.

(In the end, there is no after.)

G.Hall (2003)
p.235
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
ON PARADOXISM

FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)

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Set Theory

If the Superset containing ALL sets
Cannot be said to include itself...
Then it excludes ALL that it includes.

G. Hall
p. 232
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
ANTHOLOGY ON PARADOXISM
FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)

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The Impossibly Possible

If everything is possible
Including the impossibility of everything,
Then nothing is impossible
Except the possibility of everything.

G. Hall (2003)
p.232
Fourth Paradoxist Anthology
FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)

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