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This thinker illustrated the dangers of combining sentences by noting that “Politicians lie” and “Cast-iron sinks” are both true, but “Politicians lie in cast iron sinks” isn’t. While attempting to discern which of two entities named Babbage and Turing is real and which is an AI, this thinker asked them questions like “Do you play chess?” This thinker made a record titled “I Cannot Be Played on Record Player 1”, which destroyed a phonograph belonging to his friend the Crab. Another friend failed to convince this thinker that “If (*) A and B are true, then Z must be true” when this thinker trapped them in an infinite (-5[1])regress. Despite the seeming impossibility of such an event, this thinker was defeated by the Greek warrior Achilles in a footrace officiated by Zeno of Elea. For 10 points, name this enthusiast of works by Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, who is a reptile. ■END■ (0[1])

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