[ExI] amendment I

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 00:03:38 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 4:58 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Quoting SR Ballard by way of Bill Wallace:
> >  But people are too selfish to act in their own best interests.   Ballard
> >
> > Can something be an oxymoron and still true?   bill w
>
> Yes. When an oxymoron is true, it is called a paradox. There are only
> several dozen paradoxes known. Henceforth, this particular paradox
> should be called Ballard's Paradox. :-)
>

Words being the way they are, someone someday may write a ballad about it.
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