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How to know we know each other

Recently, I have exchanged two e-mail messages with the owner of a weblog which I happened to stumble upon. After the second message, he asked me: Do we know each other?

My first thought was: How should I know? But then, here is how to know we know each other:

If you think we could perhaps know each other chances are we do not.

If you think that I may ever say so you certainly do not know me.

If you think we might actually never get to know each other we already do (know quite an essential part of what I think we could possibly know from each other).

If you know that my middle name is Epimenides we in fact do know each other. But then, tell me, why do you ask?

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 at 23:47 on rattus rattus' blog and is filed under I am a liar, Nonsense. Responses are currently closed.
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One Response to “How to know we know each other”

  1. rattus says:
    August 4th, 2008 at 7:20

    How wonderful that we have met with a paradox.
    Now we have some hope of making progress. — Niels Bohr

    (According to Wikiquote.org, 2008-08-04, cited in “Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed” (1966) by Ruth Moore, page 196.)