It's fun watching your kids grow smarter. My son James is six years old and I've noticed the complexity of his questions of late have graduated from "where did the dinosaurs go?" to "if all Cretans are liars, how can this testimony be true?"
Ok, he's not quite there yet, but today I got a question that brought a smile to my face because I remember wondering the exact same thing when I was just a little older than James. The strange thing is, I wondered but never thought to ask anyone the answer. A sure sign James is smarter than his old man is his willingness to ask questions he doesn't know the answer to.
James wanted to know how New Yorkers knew who to cheer for: the Islanders or the Rangers. I vividly recall lying in bed as a nine year old and wondering how New Yorkers knew whether they were to be Yankee fans or Mets fans.
After tackling the Islanders v. Rangers question, I'm ready for the Cretan one. The utterance of a paradoxical sentence is pragmatically self-defeating.
