There's this town with two blacksmiths - one, a swordsmaker and the other, a shield maker. The swordsmaker's swords can slice through anything as a rule and the other guy's shields cannot be destroyed. Now they get cut up with each other for some reason and pit their wares against each other. What do you expect happens?

I don't think that this is a paradox.

The sword can slice through anything, and the shield cannot be destroyed. Therefore, if you count the sword slicing through the shield as destroying it, the shield is not a "thing" so the sword can't slice through it. The shield will block the sword.

Posted by Hal on 2006-04-22 15:17:57