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'This statement is false' - Is this statement true or is it false?
 
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The statement "This statement is false" is a classic example of a paradox, specifically the liar paradox.

Let’s analyze it:


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The statement:

> "This statement is false."



Let’s call this statement S.


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Possibility 1: S is true

If S is true, then what it says must hold — that is, it must be false.
So if it's true, then it's false. Contradiction.


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Possibility 2: S is false

If S is false, then what it says — that it is false — is not true, which means it must be true.
So if it's false, then it's true. Again, contradiction.


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Conclusion:

The statement creates a self-referential loop that cannot consistently be assigned a truth value — it cannot be true or false without contradiction.

Therefore, it is neither true nor false in classical logic — it's a paradox.

This challenges our usual binary understanding of truth and is important in fields like logic, philosophy, and computer science (e.g., Gödel's incompleteness theorems).
 
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The statement "This statement is false" is a classic example of a paradox, specifically the liar paradox.

Let’s analyze it:


---

The statement:

> "This statement is false."



Let’s call this statement S.


---

Possibility 1: S is true

If S is true, then what it says must hold — that is, it must be false.
So if it's true, then it's false. Contradiction.


---

Possibility 2: S is false

If S is false, then what it says — that it is false — is not true, which means it must be true.
So if it's false, then it's true. Again, contradiction.


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Conclusion:

The statement creates a self-referential loop that cannot consistently be assigned a truth value — it cannot be true or false without contradiction.

Therefore, it is neither true nor false in classical logic — it's a paradox.

This challenges our usual binary understanding of truth and is important in fields like logic, philosophy, and computer science (e.g., Gödel's incompleteness theorems).
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Good ragebait, but yeah you cannot use logic to debunk logic. As you know
 
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is the statement true?
 
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