> I was *this close* to posting a message to this
> thread myself. It is very confusingly worded.
> I think people are agreeing with you. Both *are*
> true. But that doesn't make sense, so it *seems*
> like a contradiction. Therefore, it's paradox --
> an apparent contradiction. If both *aren't* true,
> and the pitfall of relativity ("it only seems
> that way") were true, then it wouldn't be a
> paradox, because it wouldn't be an "apparent
> contradiction" it would be a "*real* contradiction."
>
> But...now that I look up the word in my dictionary,
> I note that the definition of "paradox" is "a
> statement that appears to contradict itself but
> that may be true." So I guess a paradox is a
> contradiction that's apparent regardless of
> whether or not it's true.
>
> So what that means is...it's a paradox anyway.
> In fact, an "apparent paradox" is itself a paradox.
> And I am so tied up in degrees of apparentness and
> truth a contradictions upon contradictions that
> I'm going to have to mull this over in bed
> tonight so that the answer can come to me just as
> I'm waking up tomorrow morning.

Oh, great - now my head hurts. Thanks a lot. :-}