moral position was true, one caller blurted out, “Jerry! Jerry! There’s no such thing as truth!” I (Frank) scrambled for the phone and began to dial furiously. Busy. Busy. Busy. I wanted to get on and say, “Jerry! To the guy who said, ‘there is no such thing as truth’—is that true?” I never did get through. And Jerry, of course, agreed with the caller, never realizing that his claim could not possibly be true—because it was self-defeating. A self-defeating statement is one that fails to meet its