A White Horse is NOT a White Horse, says Dong Ping

       GENERAL EDUCATION
 
Sisyphus & Epimenides Walk into a Bar. . .
 
    
 
 
The truth that sets me free is
knowing it won’t.
                              xxxooo, Sisyphus.
 
If true, then false.
If false, then true.
                             xxxooo, Epimenides
 
Words are so inadequate.
Pictures too.
 
Talking about talking here: the truth of
statements not to be necessarily collapsed,
conflated, and confused with the ”what” that
the statements are talking about.
 
I am free when I know I’m not free.
Uncommonly Good sense, but not so much
linguistically. Anyone might could  complain.
O contrary: you contradict your self, yr
not making any sense, Sam.
 
The statement has to contradict itself in order
to do justice to the truth it’s talking about—or
indicating. But try convincing  a self-esteemed
rationalist, prides himself in being logical.

(Do I overstate? Generalize? Reduce? Simplify.
Of course How can I not?  Got to err in order
to clarity, true?).
 
All Cretans are liars, says Epimenides the Cretan.
Same deal.   
 
       
 
 A joke,  yes?  (from I.E. yek – to speak: juggle,
                             jocular, joke, jeopardy)
 
"To speak"  - a jeopardy, always: cuts 3 ways:
includes, excludes and occludes.  (Gk: eirein –
                                                    to say, irony)
 
Yes, but…any one might appropriately say after
I’ve spoken of this or that.  On the other hand not
with standing how I’ve ripped off a piece of the
whole and nailed it down to make it do my bidness.
 
“A white horse is not a white horse,”
      Dong  Ping likes to tell me
Yeah, I know what you mean but you
can’t just walk into class and make a claim like that
without confusion, aggravation, appropriate clamor. 
 
“You must die in order to live” I tell him, tit for tat
Otherwise how are you  going to be born again, so
to speak, in manners of speaking. 
 
(Dong Ping roars in laughter and retreats to his office.)

Levels.
Levels of logical typing say Russell and Whitehead
(aiming to eliminate the problem of contradiction and
paradox, our stumbling blocks and gateways. )
 
This is false, right?
True!
 
“Make me one with everything,” says  Yogi Guru to
                  the hot dog vendor,
              “Hey, where’s my change?”
      "Change comes from within,” says the
         hot dog vendor to the Yogi Guru