ABSTRACT
The ‘hanging judge’ is a slightly different case of the ‘All Cretans are liars’ type of
paradox, which has kept philosophers from Aristotle to Zeno, and back again to
Aquinas, busy for countless years. The paradox originated with the ancient Greek
philosopher Epimendes, who is supposed to have claimed that people from Crete
always told lies. This was not only somewhat racist, but somewhat inexplicable, as
he himself was from Crete. If it was true, then what he himself was saying should
have been a lie, but if it were a lie, then . . . The truth of the claim affects the
circumstances in which it is uttered which affects the truth of the claim, which . . .
