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- proper noun Epimenides of Knossos.
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The apostle of the Gentiles took this view when he called Epimenides the
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Their point would be that no one (moreover) should be credited with knowledge (of the certain truth concerning the gods or the nature of all things) simply on the basis of having correctly described, perhaps even predicted, individual events as they take place (perhaps a reference to self-styled paragons of wisdom and predictors of events such as Epimenides and Pythagoras).
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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They like presenting hapless office girl bots with the Epimenides Paradox and watching their circuits fry.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010
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Epimenides' poem Cretica is quoted twice in the New Testament.
Other Religions in Sunday School James F. McGrath 2009
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Epimenides' poem Cretica is quoted twice in the New Testament.
Archive 2009-05-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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The Cretan in question is traditionally said to have been Epimenides.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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(He is particularly fond of Epimenides' paradox, a classic one-sentence brain-buster: "This sentence is false.")
Charlie Kaufman: Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds by Refusing to Please 2008
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Epimenides of Crete who slept fifty-seven years; and they extend to modern days as La Belle au Bois dormant.
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(He is particularly fond of Epimenides' paradox, a classic one-sentence brain-buster: "This sentence is false.")
Charlie Kaufman: Hollywood's Brainiest Screenwriter Pleases Crowds by Refusing to Please Jason Tanz 2008
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Fable supposes that one Epimenides in a single nap, slept twenty-seven years, and that on his awaking he was quite astonished at finding his grandchildren — who asked him his name — married, his friends dead, his town and the manners of its inhabitants changed.
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