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Cambodia's checkpoint closure worsens ties with Thailand: report
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Cambodia's checkpoint closure worsens ties with Thailand: report
BANGKOK, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The relations between Thailand and
Cambodia would be deteriorated as Cambodia shut two checkpoints along
the border in retaliation for the Thai government's similar action,
the Nation newspaper reported Thursday.
Cambodia closed two international checkpoints on Wednesday, the
first in Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district connecting to Poipet in
Cambodia, and the second in Trat, gateway to Cambodia's Koh Kong.
Last year, trade through the two closed checkpoints totaled more
than 10 billion baht (238.1 ...
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Commentary: Office of Strategic Influence thankfully has been shut down
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...like the Pentagon's version of the Epimenides' Paradox, which dates back to a couple of millennia or so. Epimenides is a Cretan--that's spelled...all Cretans are liars. Now if what Epimenides says is true, then he must be lying...
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Fuzzy logic = clear opportunity: what do a 6th-century "philosopher poet" and artificial intelligence have to do with better controls and fault detection? Take a quick primer in fuzzy logic and soon enough, the potential for building automation will come into crisp focus.
Magazine article from: Engineered Systems
; ...But the previous sentence is false. Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) was a semi-mythical...could mathematically prove that the Epimenides Paradox is exactly 50% true and 50...continue, you might want to return to the Epimenides Paradox and try solving it (mathematically...
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Good. Bad. It's all the same in the end VISUAL ART Albert Oehlen White chapel LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; In 600BC or so, Epimenides of Knossos wrote that all Cretans were liars. But Epimenides was a Cretan: so was he lying? It's a paradox...makes the critic's job difficult. Just as Epimenides's admission of dishonesty pulls the rug out...
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This headlineis (half) false; Fuzzy logic.(Fuzzy logic can be used to resolve some paradoxes)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...to analyse self-referential and contradictory sentences EPIMENIDES the Cretan, a philosopher of the 6th century BC, is said...sort of true, sort of false, and exactly half-way. Epimenides the Cretan would surely have approved, or disapproved...
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Weimaraner Weltbewohner: Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff 'Weltliteratur'.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...serenade Germany's victory over France, the result, Des Epimenides Erwachen, turned out to be an astonishingly subversive apology...turbulent era. The few war veterans able to grasp the import of Epimenides' lesson ought to have baulked at this. The central image...
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Straw Dogs.(book)(Book review)
Magazine article from: OnEarth
; ...the liar's paradox. It can be traced back to the Cretan philosopher Epimenides, who said, "All Cretans are liars." If that's true, then the Cretan Epimenides is a liar, which means the statement is false, which means this Cretan...
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The origin of paradox and its relation to philosophical reflection
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today
; ...so-called "law of identity" cannot be violated. We find the same kind of dilemma with the famous "liar paradox." (Epimenides, the Cretan, says that all Cretans are liars.) A similar, though not identical, contradiction is encountered in the...
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The Erotics of War in German Romanticism
Magazine article from: German Quarterly
; ...ultimately succumbs to the gendered structure of love. An original and fascinating chapter reads Goethe's festival play Des Epimenides Erwacken alongside a Karl Friedrich Schinkel painting and Ernst Moritz Arndt's patriotic war poetry, contrasting Goethe...
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Solon His Follie, or, A Politique Discourse Touching the Reformation of Common-weales Conquered, Declined or Corrupted.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...years after its first publication in 1594. Solon His Follie is an allegory set in sixth-century B.C. Athens, where Epimenides, Pisistratus and Solon discuss the policy of Athens (i.e., England) towards its colony Salamina (i.e., Ireland...
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Magazine article from: Metro : Media & Education Magazine
; ...first a word from our sponsor. Today's Idiot's Box is brought to you by a Cretan who would make a cretin of us all. Epimenides the Cretan manufactured the Liar Paradox, the self-contradictory act of making true lies out of false truths, idiot...
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