Someone’s been studying the 2 guardians puzzle.
Comment on I just realized there is absolutely no way to say 'i always lie'.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“If you were to ask me if I always lie, I would say ‘yes’.”
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 year ago
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which would be saying the truth. Which contradict itself.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No—if they were to ask you, you would lie and say “no”. So the claim that you’d make a true statement is still a lie.
Bilbo@hobbit.world 1 year ago
No, it’s a lie. They wouldn’t say yes, so saying that they would say yes is a lie.
lemmington_steele@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you don’t need to say t’es if someone asks you?
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You won’t have to lie to said question, but you’d have to tell the truth to do that… or that be a lie too… well, OC is partly right. But it isn’t a surefire solution.
If your interlocutor end up asking you the question anyway, you either have to answer “yes”, in which case OC told the truth and then you don’t always lie, which means you lied to the answer (as you donlt always lie). Or you answer “No”, which means you lied in OC, but told the truth as an answer.
Either way, there is no solution to this paradox. You cannot tell that you always lie without telling a truth.