Antinomies on the landscape

Posted on 1 October 2007 by Brian Hayes

False Creek in Vancouver, from near Granville Island (which is not an island)

From the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guide to the Pacific Northwest, page 218:

In spite of its name, False Creek is not a creek at all….

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2 Responses to Antinomies on the landscape

  1. Barry Cipra says:
    1 October 2007 at 1:23 pm

    If it has two places where boats can tie up, then False Creek contains a paradox….

  2. seb says:
    4 October 2007 at 9:33 am

    I thought we knew that every sentence that contains the word false in it is false.