Liar paradox

In sixth century B.C., a Greek Philosopher named Epimenides who is a Cretan stated, “All Cretans are liars.” This statement was the start of the liar paradox. The liar paradox is a statement in which it says that the statement itself or the subject who said the statement is lying. Other examples of this paradox are “What I am now saying is false” or “This sentence is false.” The reason statements like “This sentence is false” is a paradox, or contradictory, is because if that whole statement is false then it is not true that “This sentence is false,” and so the “sentence” is true. However, if that whole statement is true then it is true that “This sentence is false,” so therefore that “sentence” is false. Because of this, one would not know whether the statement is actually true or false since there is a contradiction between the two possible answers. There are many possible solutions to solve the liar paradox, and one of them is to ban self-referential and indexical statements. A self-referential…

What defines a liar? A person who tells lies repeatedly. Greg Mortenson is a liar. In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson promotes the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but his fabricated stories, misuse of money, and continuous lies overshadow his positive efforts. Greg Mortenson is believed to be using his book to promote the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and…

paradoxes are: Berry paradox, Richard’s paradox, and the paradox of the Liar. All three paradoxes explore the limits of human languages and how that affects our understanding of mathematical concepts. The Berry paradox is particularly concerned with numbers and their descriptions; there are numbers that are cannot even be named for example. I liked how the author described the relationship of the Berry paradox to computation. He avoided turing machines, which might have been unnecessary…

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Frank and Robot is an emotional story about an elderly man struggling with Alzheimer's disease. The main character Frank has many relationships throughout the story, and you hear of a few others. However the most important relationship to the story is the one between Frank and the Robot that his son Hunter gave him to take care of him when he is away. This relationship with Robot becomes important to Frank over a period of time. Throughout the story Robot helps Frank cope and manage his…

be no middle ground. As such, all rational creatures, including God, are limited to knowing if a proposition is true or false if a truth-value can be assigned at all. Yet, despite this, several paradoxes exist where the truth-value of a statement cannot be assigned or the truth-value may be both true and false, and even with omniscience, God cannot know the solution. These two conditions are satisfied in the liar and barber paradoxes. The first paradox that God cannot resolve is the liar…

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In certain extracts of John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism,” he argues, “that the only ends of human life are pleasure and the avoidance of pain, so that anything else is bound ultimately to turn in some way on these ends” (Mill 127). Essentially this means that Mill believes that pleasure and the avoidance of pain are the guiding source when it comes to making decisions regarding moral dilemmas. This claim also involves stating that utility is the ultimate source for decision making. Utility is…

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Othello’s alleged affair with his wife, Emelia. Honest to a fault, Iago embodies the paradox of a truthful man who is an even more cunning manipulator because of it, which contradicts a core human idea that honest people are the most righteous or virtuous. Iago rightfully earns his reputation for honesty by being honest in the face of consequences…