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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For some reason "The following statement is true." "The previous statement is false." has always tried to send my brain into an infinite loop.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The problem with that particular paradox is that it's not possible. Therefore one of the statements has to be wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think you've quite clocked it. It's not that one of the statements has to be wrong, because that's just a point in the cycle. If A is wrong, then B is right, which means A is right, which means B is wrong, which means A is wrong and the cycle begins anew.

They aren't wrong, they're contradictory. There is no logical way to parse the two statements together. That's what a paradox is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. But which one?