Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate

The Strange Loop Phenomenon Occurs Whenever, By Moving Upwards (or Downwards) Through Levels Of Some Hierarchial System, We Unexpectedly Find Ourselves Right Back Where We Started.

I Would Proclaim That The Vast Majority Of What [say, Scientific American] Is True-yet My Ability To Defend Such A Claim Is Weaker Than I Would Like. And Most Likely The Readers, Authors, And Editors Of That Magazine Would Be Equally Hard Pressed To Come Up With Cogent, Non-technical Arguments Convincing A Skeptic Of This Point, Especially If Pitted Against A Clever Lawyer Arguing The Contrary. How Come Truth Is Such A Slippery Beast?

The Following Sentence Is False. The Preceding Sentence Is True.

For 13 To Be Unlucky Would Require There To Be Some Kind Of Cosmic Intelligence That Counts Things That Humans Count And That Also Makes Certain Things Happen On Certain Dates Or In Certain Places According To Whether The Number 13 'is Involved' Or Not (whatever 'is Involved' Might Mean).

The Nice Thing About Having A Brain Is That One Can Learn, That Ignorance Can Be Supplanted By Knowledge, And That Small Bits Of Knowledge Can Gradually Pile Up Into Substantial Heaps.