Epimenides Paradox/Historical Note

Historical Note on Epimenides Paradox

Epimenides of Knossos is quoted as having said:

The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!

This may have been in response to a Cretan stating that Zeus is mortal, which offended Epimenides's religious sensibilities.


Hence this statement is not an intrinsic paradox, but rather an opinion of the Cretans from Epimenides.


In fact, Epimenides Paradox has been considered paradoxical only from the $19$th century, when the rules of logic had only recently begun to be explored.

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