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	Eubulides - LoveToKnow 1911
		EUBULIDES, a native of Miletus, Greek philosopher and successor of Eucleides as head of the Megarian school.
		Though mainly examples of verbal quibbling, they serve to show the difficulties of language and of explaining the relations of sense-given impressions.
		Eubulides wrote a treatise on Diogenes the Cynic and also a number of comedies.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Eubulides (120 words)

	Eubulides of Miletus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eubulides of Miletus was a Greek philosopher who formulated the liar paradox in the 4th century BC.
		Besides paradoxes, Megarian logic focused on the logic of whole propositions, in contrast to Aristotle's logic of predicates.
		Another paradox attributed to Eubulides is falakros or The Bald Man. A man with one hair is bald, or two hairs, but where do you draw the line as to how many hairs there can be before the man is not bald?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eubulides_of_Miletus (173 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 61 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The name Eubulides was borne by several others of this family, the genealogy of which it is rather difficult to make out; but it appears that Eubulides, the grandfather and adoptive father of the boy of the same name, was himself the grandson of another Eubulides, son of Buselus.
		B.] ; EUBU'LIDES (EvandwA/oV), a statuary* who made a great votive offering, consisting of a group of thirteen statues, namely, Athena, Paeonia, Zeus, Mnemosyne, the Muses, and Apollo, which he de dicated at Athens, in the temple of Dionysus, in the Cerameicus.
		The architectural character of the monument and the forms of the letters, alike shew that these inscriptions must be referred to the time of the Roman dominion in Greece.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1169.html (886 words)

	Miletus — FactMonster.com
		The Milesians were strong enough to resist the Lydian kings and were not molested by the Persians.
		Miletus produced some of the earliest Greek philosophers, including Thales and Anaximander.
		Isidorus of Miletus - Isidorus of Miletus, name of two architects of the time of Justinian.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0833162.html (172 words)

	2. Empedocles
		Besides Euclides Diodorus and Menedemus are mentioned as distinguished Eristics, but particularly Eubulides, and later on Stilpo, whose dialectic likewise related to contradictions which appeared in external conception and in speech, so that it in great measure passed into a mere play upon words.
		Of the innumerable multitude of ways in which they tried to confuse our knowledge in the categories, many are preserved with their names, and the principal of these are the Sophisms, whose discovery is ascribed to Eubulides of Miletus, a pupil of Euclides.
		In Eubulides’ propositions the main point was that because the truth is simple, a simple answer is required; that thus the answer should not, as happened in Aristotle (De Sophist.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpsocratics.htm (9985 words)

	A History of Western Philosophy 1.8
		More important is the belief expressed that his activity of philosophizing, of seeking for wisdom, is a service to the gods, one which nothing, not even the threat of death, could induce him to stop.
		Eubulides of Miletus, a member of the school, is famous for the formulation of several dialectical arguments and paradoxes; he seems to have set the school in a direction which had its impact on the later Stoic logic.
		Both Eubulides and Diodorus Cronus are said to have made attacks on Aristotelian doctrines.
	www2.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp108.htm (9682 words)

	Gamma
		Witness Eubulides' reference to "The Liar" argument, and Plato's use of "turnabout", according to Diogenes Laertius, ii, 108 and iii, 35 (Loeb ed., I, 236 and 308).
		Self- contradictory statements, here a strong argument in Aristotle's hands, were at times a puzzle to the ancients, and indeed throughout history up to the present century.
		Eubulides, it might be mentioned, was his contemporary.
	www.morec.com /classics/gamma.htm (9204 words)

	Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers: Euclides, translated by C.D. Yonge
		Next in succession to Euclides, came Eubulides of Miletus, who handed down a great many arguments in dialectics; such as the Lying one; the Concealed one; the Electra; the Veiled one; the Sorites; the Horned one; the Bald one.
		Eubulides had a quarrel with Aristotle, and was constantly attacking him.
		One of the school of Eubulides was Euphantus of Olynthus, who wrote a history of the events of his own time; he also composed several tragedies, for which he got great distinction at the festivals.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dleuclides.htm (997 words)

	Logical Paradoxes .info - The Liar Paradox
		It can be traced back at least as far as Eubulides of Miletus, a fourth-century B.C. Greek philosopher.
		Eubulides’ version of the paradox is this: A man says that he is lying; is what he says true or false?
		His statement could be false however; it could be that Epimenides is dishonest but that not all Cretans are liars.
	www.logicalparadoxes.info /liar.html (319 words)

	Liar paradox
		Even the statement "I am a liar" is not paradoxical; depending on the definition of "liar" it may be true or false.
		However, the statement "I am lying now," first attributed to Eubulides of Miletus in the fourth century BC, definitely is paradoxical.
		Various elaborations of the basic Eubulides Liar paradox have appeared over the ages.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/Liar_paradox.html (511 words)

	Dialectical School (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The ‘Dialectical school’ denotes a group of early Hellenistic philosophers that were loosely connected by philosophizing in the — Socratic — tradition of Eubulides of Megara and by their interest in logical paradoxes, propositional logic and dialectical expertise.
		Clinomachus of Thurii, a pupil of Eubulides of Miletus, is named as founder of the sect, but may have been given this title only in hindsight (DL 1.19 and 2.112, Sedley 1977 n.16).
		Euphantus of Olyntus, another pupil of Eubulides, probably born before 349 BC, may have been the earliest member of the sect.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/dialectical-school (5284 words)

	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Sorites Paradox
		It was one of a series of puzzles attributed to the Megarian logician Eubulides of Miletus.
		It was seen to have the same form as the Heap and all such puzzles became collectively known as sorites puzzles.
		Some scholars have attempted to trace its origins back to Zeno of Elea however the evidence seems to point to Eubulides as the first to employ the sorites.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/spr1999/entries/sorites-paradox (6214 words)

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		The Liar Paradox has been discussed continually in philosophy since the middle of the 4th century BCE.
		The most ancient attribution is to Eubulides of Miletus who included it among a list of seven puzzles.
		Is what he says true or false?" Eubulides' commentary on his puzzle has not be found.
	www.lycos.com /info/liar-paradox.html (455 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Paradox - A581096
		A second answer could be that the boundary between 'chicken' and 'pre-chicken' is a fuzzy one, and so is the boundary between 'chicken egg' and 'pre-chicken egg,' therefore they (the chicken and its egg) emerged gradually and simultaneously, and at some point it became possible to say that both clearly existed.
		A more paradoxical version is due to Eubulides of Miletus, who lived a couple of centuries after Epimenides.
		If he was lying, then what he said was false, and he was in fact telling the truth.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A581096 (2451 words)

	Sorites Paradox
		It is not known whether Eubulides actually invented the sorites puzzles.
		Nor is it known just what motives Eubulides may have had for presenting this puzzle.
		It was, however, employed by later Greek philosophers to attack various positions.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/win2002/entries/sorites-paradox (6231 words)

	Reason Magazine - A Heap of Precedents
		Rather, the disconnect in perception may be explained by an ancient Greek thought experiment.
		There's a famous philosophical puzzle, originally attributed to Eubulides of Miletus, known as the sorites paradox or heaps problem.
		It goes like this: Two or three grains of sand obviously don't constitute a "heap" of sand.
	www.reason.com /news/show/32940.html (932 words)

	Lingua Franca \| Hypotheses \| Confidence Games
		It is an example of a sorites (from soros, Greek for "heap"), a series of logical propositions designed so that each collapses neatly into the next and in the conclusion they all fold up like an accordion.
		Sorites paradoxes allegedly go back to Eubulides of Miletus in the fourth century b.c.
		They continue to irritate contemporary philosophers of language, who have responded by writing at length about vagueness.
	linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org /0005/hypo.html (955 words)

	crocodile and heaps and acervation and sorites
		Thus, we can and we cannot have a heap of wheat at the same time.
		Ascribed also to Eubulides (by the 3rd Cent CE biographer Diogenes Laertius) was the nearly identical problem of the "bald man"--maybe a little too close to home for some of us (!), which can be stated in the same way as the "heaps" paradox.
		The article goes on to talk about how contemporary philosophers have handled this paradox, but I am not interested in that issue now.
	www.drbilllong.com /More2006/Heaps.html (807 words)

	Ancient Logic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		The same passage displays awareness of the fact that self-referential use of the truth-predicate can be problematic—an insight also documented by the discovery of the Liar paradox by Eubulides of Miletus (mid-4
		Besides the Liar, Eubulides is said to have been the originator of several other logical paradoxes, including the Sorites.
		Their best known exponents were Diodorus Cronus and his pupil Philo (sometimes called ‘Philo of Megara’).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/logic-ancient (10651 words)

	The ship of Theseus
		Whether it is the same ship or another..
		An similar paradox is attributed to Eubulides of Miletus, the Paradox of the Bald Man. A man with one hair is bald, or two hairs, but where do you draw the line as to how many hairs there can be before the man is not bald?
		What would be if we take 50% of parts of the original ship of Theseus and produce two ships from these parts including the remaining parts with new elements?
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Theseus.htm (207 words)

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		Knowing how to deal with sophisms, is as important for tuning the mind as sport is for tuning the body.
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		We are faced with paradox since from apparently true premises by seemingly uncontroversial reasoning we arrive at an apparently false conclusion.
	bluejoh.com /dungeon/archives/MSc/vagueness.ppt (427 words)

	Waiting for Godot and Endgame: Theatre as Text, by Michael Worton
		One of Zeno's followers, Eubulides of Miletus, established the sorites (or heap) paradox in which he proposed that there can be no such thing as a heap of sand, since one grain does not make a heap and adding one grain is never enough to convert a non-heap into a heap.
		As with the St Augustine allusion, we shall never know whether his discourse is amnesiac, or whether the confusion of Zeno, Eubulides and Sextus Empiricus is deliberate.
		What is certain is that his writing is highly intertextual and that Beckett is constantly referring not only to ideas but to the ways in which these ideas have been formulated.
	www.samuel-beckett.net /Godot_Endgame_Worton.html (7397 words)

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		This chapter v states the law of non-contradiction itself, and his chief argument against those who would deny it] 1.
		ouk endechetai to auto kath' hena kai ton auton chronon einai kai mE einai, there cannot be and not be the same at one and the same time, and other self-contradictions of this kind, kai talla ta touton autois antikeimena ton tropon, 1061b34-1062a2 [e.g., Eubulides' Liar.
		No doubt it was addressed by numerous Greek thinkers at an early time in one way or another, but the first recorded is Anaximander of Miletus, sixth century B.C., who named it the archE of all things.
	www.morec.com /classics/kappa.txt (7365 words)

	Liar paradox - Theme - Several liar paradox formulations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the famous paradox of Eubulides of Miletus (a member of the Megarian school, and a contemporary of Aristotle).
		A more popular variant: "A Cretan says: 'All Cretans always do lie'." If that Cretan is speaking the truth, in that case he is lying!
		"As a man claims, he is lying, is he, in that case, telling the truth?" (Eubulides)
	home.tiscali.be /be011079/Engels_Thema.html (158 words)

	Amazon.ca: Vagueness: Books: Timothy Williamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		by Timothy Williamson (Author) "The logician Eubulides of Miletus, a contemporary of Aristotle, was famous for seven puzzles..." (more)
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	www.amazon.ca /Vagueness-Timothy-Williamson/dp/0415139805 (964 words)

	"Darwinian Fairytales" - Page 5 - JREF Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Any competent logician, computer scientist, mathematician, or generally-educated person should be familiar with that paradox, as it formed the foundation of the most recent revolution in philosophical thought.
		This sort of dilema has been around since the sixth century B.C. Look up Eubulides of Miletus and Epimenides.
		This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.
	forums.randi.org /showthread.php?p=1532520 (2901 words)

	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (L) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The family later changed the spelling of the name to l'Hôpital.
		One is attributed to the philosopher Epimenides in the sixth century BC: "All Cretans are liars...One of their own poets has said so." Another is attributed to Eubulides of Miletus a leader of the Megarian school from the fourth century BC.
		In his Life of Euclides Diogenes Laertius wrote that Eubulides "handed down a great many arguments in dialectic." The Eubulides form is "Is the man a liar who says that he tells lies?" W. and M. Kneale The Development of Logic (1962) pp.
	members.aol.com /jeff570/l.html (7192 words)

	Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Real Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The earliest Sorites paradoxes, attributed to Eubulides of Miletus, consisted of puzzles aimed at showing how difficult it is to fix a crisp boundary between the state of affairs whereby something is properly described in one way, and that state of affairs in which this description is no longer adequate.
		For example, with Eubulides, is a man with one hair in his head a bald man? If yes, then is a man with two hairs in his head a bald man? If yes, what about a man with three hairs, four hairs, and so on until we have a man with two million hairs.
		At what point does the man stop being bald?
	ontology.buffalo.edu /smith/articles/lz.html (8598 words)

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