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Please forgive me if this is a naive question (or even completely stupid :-)

The way I have heard the original Cretan liar paradox expressed is that
Epiminedes, a Cretan, said "All Cretans are liars". The reasoning goes that
as Epiminedes is known to be from Crete, he therefore claims to be a liar, 
and therefore claims not to be, which is a paradox.  But it seems to me
(in my ignorance) that this statement permits a consistent interpretation,
namely that SOME Cretans are liars, and that Epiminedes is one of them.
By supposing the existence of other Cretans, we avoid a paradox.

So a) I have the original statement wrong
or b) it never was a paradox really
or c) I have missed something obvious and everything I say is false.
Break it to me gently, especially if I have misspelled "Epi.*".

Peter.
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