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Re: The self negating sentence. 4 Years, 4 Months ago
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Years ago I heard this one as a self-negating sentence: Creates a negation when appended to its own quotation creates a negation when appended to its own quotation.
So the quotation does create a negation, so it does not, so it does, indefinitely.
All note: no less a philosopher than Family Guy's Peter Griffin once encountered the problem of a self-negating sentence. He immediately denied that his self-negating sentence was false, and discovered just as immediately that he had to deny the previous sentence, and so on and on, to infinity and beyond. I forget how the writers got Peter out of his mess. Chuck Jones would have had an Acme anvil fall out of the sky, but that was not the solution.
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Re: The self negating sentence. 4 Years, 3 Months ago
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'This sentence is false' is like all other sentences, false. Nothing is true, language is a lie so here's another paradox - if 'language is a lie thus the truth is ineffable', is such a statement true? slightly more obvious I must say, but intriguing nonetheless.
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Re: The self negating sentence. 4 Years, 3 Months ago
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[quote1202916652=Vero]
'This sentence is false' is like all other sentences, false. Nothing is true, language is a lie so here's another paradox - if 'language is a lie thus the truth is ineffable', is such a statement true? slightly more obvious I must say, but intriguing nonetheless.
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Wow... deep man... I imagine that took you years of effort to come up with... %-6
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Re: The self negating sentence. 4 Years, 1 Month ago
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I am not sure if this is correct but I think that EVERY sentence/statement contains the implicit claim that it i correct. The very purpose of a statement is to provide information, which is true by default, and even lies/jokes/sarcastic comments all contain the implicit claim that they are true, though whether they are actually true is another story.
If what i said was correct then it would mean that the sentence "This sentence is false" also contains the implicit claim "This sentence is true", causing the overall statement to be "This sentence is true and false".
Could this be the cause of the paradox?
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