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==Paradoxes of Eubulides== Eubulides is most famous for inventing the forms of seven famous [[paradoxes]],{{sfn|Laërtius|1925|loc=108}} some of which, however, are also ascribed to [[Diodorus Cronus]]:{{sfn|Laërtius|1925|loc=111}} # [[Liar paradox|The Liar (''pseudomenos'') paradox]]:<br>A man says: "What I am saying now is a [[lie]]." If the statement is true, then he is lying, even though the statement is true. If the statement is a lie, then he is not actually lying, even though the statement is a lie. Thus, if the speaker is lying, he tells the truth, and vice versa. # The Masked Man (''enkekalymmenos'') paradox:<br>"Do you know this masked man?" "No." "But he is your father. So – do you not know your own father?" # The Electra (''Elektra'') paradox:<br>[[Electra]] doesn't know that the man approaching her is her brother, [[Orestes (mythology)|Orestes]]. Electra knows her brother. Does Electra know the man who is approaching? # The Overlooked Man (''dialanthanôn'') paradox:<br />Alpha ignored the man approaching him and treated him as a stranger. The man was his father. Did Alpha ignore his own father and treat him as a stranger? # [[Sorites paradox|The Heap (''sôritês'') paradox]]:<br>A single grain of sand is certainly not a heap. Nor is the addition of a single grain of sand enough to transform a non-heap into a heap: when we have a collection of grains of sand that is not a heap, then adding but one single grain will not create a heap. And yet we know that at some point we will have a heap. # The Bald Man (''phalakros'') paradox:<br>A man with a full head of hair is obviously not bald. Now the removal of a single hair will not turn a non-bald man into a bald one. And yet it is obvious that a continuation of that process must eventually result in baldness. # The Horns (''keratinês'') paradox:<br>What you have not lost, you have. But you have not lost horns. Therefore, you have horns. The first paradox ([[Liar paradox|the Liar]]) is probably the most famous, and is similar to the famous paradox of [[Epimenides paradox|Epimenides the Cretan]]. The second, third and fourth paradoxes are variants of a single paradox and relate to the problem of what it means to "know" something and the identity of objects involved in an affirmation (compare the [[masked-man fallacy]]). The fifth and sixth paradoxes are also a single paradox and is usually thought to relate to the vagueness of language.{{sfn|Hyde|2018}} The final paradox, the horns, is a paradox related to [[presupposition]].{{sfn|Bobzien|2012|p=166}}
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