Sunday 24 January, 2010

self-fulfilling paradox

[This incident happened about 2 or 3 days ago. I probably would've not blogged about it for a while, if not for reading about Curry's paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry's_paradox .
So, dedicated to Mr. Haskell Curry, who gave his name to 2 programming languages and 'curry functions' which one would relate more with an Indian dish of curries rather than the sur name of a great Combinatorial dude]

[X, entering my room...]
Me: No!
X: Why, no?
Me: No, to whatever you're gonna ask!
X: Did you even know what I was gonna ask?
Me: No!

[paradox? how did i answer 'no' if i didn't know what he was gonna ask, etc etc etc
@Piyush: read the "In natural language" part of the wiki]