Eubulides of Miletus Quotes
Eubulides of Miletus was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school and a contemporary and vigorous critic of Aristotle. He was renowned in antiquity for the invention or refinement of a set of paradoxes that have shaped logic and the philosophy of language ever since, including the Liar, the Sorites or Heap, the Horns, the Bald Man, the Veiled Man, and the Hooded Man. The quotes below are attributed to Eubulides of Miletus, organized by topic.
Eubulides of Miletus on Truth
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Attributed to Eubulides of Miletus:
“If a man says he is lying, does he speak truly or falsely?”
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Attributed to Eubulides of Miletus:
“When does a heap cease to be a heap if you take grains away one by one?”
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Attributed to Eubulides of Miletus:
“What you have not lost, you still have; you have not lost horns; therefore you have horns.”
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Attributed to Eubulides of Miletus:
“The bald man's first lost hair did not make him bald; one further hair cannot do so either.”
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Attributed to Eubulides of Miletus:
“Logic must guard against the seductions of ordinary speech.”