Author Topic: Ask Frontrox questions! (Read 4508 times)

Frontrox · December 19, 2011, 02:35:13 AM

Quote from: GodlyFireFight on December 19, 2011, 02:29:39 AM

Doctor, what the forget is he doing up on that three story building?

Dammit im a doctor, not a psychologist!

Quote from: slimabob on December 19, 2011, 02:31:40 AM

My computer is on fire! My dog is outside though, so it obviously isn't my toothbrush that is causing the problem. What do?

QUICKLY! Open the door! Get on the floor! Get everybody to do the dinosaur!

Quote from: Woolys on December 19, 2011, 02:32:11 AM

I have a very important question!

If someone says "I always lie", are they telling the truth? Or are they lying?

Hm that's a good one

* Frontrox walks out of the room and slams the door.

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slimabob · December 19, 2011, 02:35:31 AM

Quote from: Woolys on December 19, 2011, 02:32:11 AM

If someone says "I always lie", are they telling the truth? Or are they lying?

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He's lying

There's no paradox. Just because it's not true that he always lies does not mean that he never lies. He lies sometimes, just like everyone else.
Now, if he said 'This sentence is a lie', that would be a paradox.

Indeed there is no paradox. The definition of a paradox implies that something is both true and false. There is a big mistake in the quite commonly accepted explanation from above: "if he was lying then he would be telling the truth". If someone lies, then he's NOT telling the truth, because he's lying. If he's lying when making this statement, the definition of lying implies that the statement itself is a lie, meaning in this case that he's not always lying. If he's telling the truth when saying he always lies, then that statement is also a lie, because he isn't always lying, he just told the truth. Actually, it doesn't matter if he's lying or telling the truth because either way this statement is a lie so it can never be true. Hence it's not a paradox.

(For the statement to be true it can never be spoken out loud. Because when you tell someone you always lie, either you have to tell the truth about that which makes your statement false again or you lie about always lying, which again makes this statement a lie)

Quote from: Frontrox on December 19, 2011, 02:35:13 AM

QUICKLY! Open the door! Get on the floor! Get everybody to do the dinosaur!

So while everyone was so busy doing the dinosaur, a real dinosaur came up and ate my family.

Woolys · December 19, 2011, 02:37:47 AM

Quote from: Frontrox on December 19, 2011, 02:35:13 AM

Dammit im a doctor, not a psychologist!
QUICKLY! Open the door! Get on the floor! Get everybody to do the dinosaur!
Hm that's a good one
* Frontrox walks out of the room and slams the door.

Lol I scanned the thread and didn't see that one