Long vs. Short

Feb 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM
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Luckily today during our test, I had time to try and figure out the extra credit. I think I succeeded. In the second part of the short answer, she wrote, "How LONG does our SHORT answer have to be?" To me, this is a paradox because the whole conent was for the "short answer" section. She put the question of how long it had to be and created a paradox. By asking the legnth for the answer, she created a wrong truth value. We do these type of things all the time during school. This, however is the first time I have realized that it is a paradox.

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that's funny--i didn't even have time to look at her italicized words-i had to get to my next class and was still working on the test! ugh... but 'short answer' on tests does seem kind of contridictory, because short answers aren't necesarily short (my short answers definitly wern't short on the test anyway...). you're right though--it is funny that it's the wrong truth value

Could they be polar antonyms? "This question is long, but shorter than that one" or "That question is short but longer than this one." Both turns are impartial and they can take the comparative form such as shorter, shortest, etc. That would be my guess. I didn't get to answer the bonus. I didn't even know there were bonus until after the exam! I must not of heard her but it doesn't matter since I ran out of time anyway.

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