People

Who was Epimenides?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/epimenides-148852.html" >Who was Epimenides?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Epimenides , fl. 6th cent.? BC, Cretan prophet and miracle worker.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Epimenides . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: Was Epimenides a miracle worker? Was Epimenides a Cretan prophet? Who was a Cretan prophet and miracle worker? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Fuzzy logic = clear opportunity: what do a 6th-century "philosopher poet" and...
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...
This headlineis (half) false; Fuzzy logic.(Fuzzy logic can be used to resolve...
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...
Weimaraner Weltbewohner: Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff 'Weltliteratur'.(Book...
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...
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...
Solon His Follie, or, A Politique Discourse Touching the Reformation of...
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...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.