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A strange Scottish spelling one:

There was a young lady named Menzies
Who said "Pray, aunt, tell me what this thenzies?"
Said her aunt with a gasp
"Why that is a wasp,
And you're holding it just where the stenzies!"
 
From a science/math background - in honor of Galileo

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Translation:

A dozen, a gross and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five time eleven
Equals nine square and not a bit more.

(I've seen this one before, but I had to look it up to make sure I got it right)
I don't know if Galileo would have gotten this, but Descartes might have.
 
One celebrating the high point of Mathematical Philosophy (yes, you literary types, there is such a thing) in the 20th century.
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If you want to research, google
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
and Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

If you don't want to slog through the higher math, a good illustration of Gödel's work is the liar's paradox "this sentence is a lie." Which cannot be either true of false.
 
Translation:

A dozen, a gross and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five time eleven
Equals nine square and not a bit more.

(I've seen this one before, but I had to look it up to make sure I got it right)
I don't know if Galileo would have gotten this, but Descartes might have.
OK Naraku, here's a harder one
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One celebrating the high point of Mathematical Philosophy (yes, you literary types, there is such a thing) in the 20th century.
View attachment 674516
If you want to research, google
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
and Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

If you don't want to slog through the higher math, a good illustration of Gödel's work is the liar's paradox "this sentence is a lie." Which cannot be either true of false.
While we're on philosophy,

Said the maid, "You must marry me, Hume!"
This made the philosopher fume,
"To that I object:
For any effect
A cause you cannot assume!"
 
One celebrating the high point of Mathematical Philosophy (yes, you literary types, there is such a thing) in the 20th century.
View attachment 674516
If you want to research, google
Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell
and Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

If you don't want to slog through the higher math, a good illustration of Gödel's work is the liar's paradox "this sentence is a lie." Which cannot be either true of false.
There is no absolute truth, and this is it.

Russell also came up with the irritating observation that
the set of all possible sets that are not members of themselves
both must be and can't be a member of itself.
 
There is no absolute truth, and this is it.

Russell also came up with the irritating observation that
the set of all possible sets that are not members of themselves
both must be and can't be a member of itself.
A man is the only Barber in a town. He shaves all the men who don't shave themselves, and only those men. Who shaves the Barber?

Or the Berry paradox, a self-referential paradox arising from an expression like "The smallest positive integer not definable in under sixty letters" (a phrase with fifty-seven letters). Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G. Berry (1867–1928), a junior librarian at Oxford's Bodleian library.
 
A man is the only Barber in a town. He shaves all the men who don't shave themselves, and only those men. Who shaves the Barber?
more important, does he get to shave the women? :p
 
He goes out of town for a shave...Or he grows a beard....:popcorn:
If he grows a beard, he doesn't shave himself, so he must shave himself
If he goes elsewhere for a shave, he doesn't shave himself, so he must shave himself
 
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