• philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that they are lying: for instance...
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    Epimenides was a Cretan who made the immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars." A paradox of self-reference arises when one considers whether it is possible...
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    The Pinocchio paradox arises when Pinocchio says "My nose grows now" and is a version of the liar paradox. The liar paradox is defined in philosophy and...
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  • statement), self-reference is a common element of paradoxes. One example occurs in the liar paradox, which is commonly formulated as the self-referential...
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  • Quine's paradox is a paradox concerning truth values, stated by Willard Van Orman Quine. It is related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports...
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  • Mathematica and Related Systems I". The liar paradox is the sentence "This sentence is false." An analysis of the liar sentence shows that it cannot be true...
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  • Curry's paradox: "If this sentence is true, then Germany borders China." Epimenides paradox: A Cretan says: "All Cretans are liars". This paradox works...
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  • The knower paradox is a paradox belonging to the family of the paradoxes of self-reference (like the liar paradox). Informally, it consists in considering...
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  • The card paradox is a variant of the liar paradox constructed by Philip Jourdain. It is also known as the postcard paradox, Jourdain paradox or Jourdain's...
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  • Many early Islamic philosophers and logicians discussed the liar paradox. Their work on the subject began in the 10th century and continued to Athīr al-Dīn...
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  • BBC Radio 4 in February 2017. "Liar" was voted 41st in the 2012 Locus Poll of Best 20th Century Short Stories. Liar paradox Does not compute HAL 9000, who...
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    create a paradox similar to the liar paradox, but without self-reference. Unlike the liar paradox, which uses a single sentence, Yablo's paradox uses an...
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  • Tarski's contributions to the Liar Paradox to find how this resolution in languages falls short. Alfred Tarski diagnosed the paradox as arising only in languages...
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    Eubulides (redirect from Phalakros paradox)
    forms of seven famous paradoxes, some of which, however, are also ascribed to Diodorus Cronus: The Liar (pseudomenos) paradox: A man says: "What I am...
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  • the liar's paradox can not be assigned definite truth values of neither "True" nor "False" without running into contradictions. The liar paradox can be...
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  • logical paradoxes, including, though not limited to, the liar paradox, the knower paradox, the unexpected hanging paradox, and the preface paradox. There...
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  • Look up liar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A liar is a person who tells lies. Liar may also refer to: The Liar, an American video artist and member...
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  • Insolubilia (category Paradoxes)
    Middle Ages, variations on the liar paradox were studied under the name of insolubilia ("insolubles"). Although the liar paradox was well known in antiquity...
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    The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes...
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  • The crocodile paradox, also known as crocodile sophism, is a paradox in logic in the same family of paradoxes as the liar paradox. The premise states...
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  • The no–no paradox is a distinctive paradox belonging to the family of the semantic paradoxes (like the Liar paradox). It derives its name from the fact...
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  • natural language semantics (situation theory), philosophy (work on the Liar Paradox), and in a different setting, non-standard analysis. In 1917, Dmitry...
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  • typically whatever one says about the Liar paradox carries over smoothly to the Hilbert–Bernays paradox. The paradox presents instead distinctive difficulties...
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  • theory, and Curry's paradox is thus avoided. Fixed-point combinator Girard's paradox Liar paradox List of paradoxes Richard's paradox Zermelo–Fraenkel set...
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  • language. To formulate linguistic theories without semantic paradoxes such as the liar paradox, it is generally necessary to distinguish the language that...
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    Stoicism (section Paradoxes)
    truth or falsehood. One paradox studied by Chrysippus, known as the Liar paradox, asked "A man says he is lying; is what he says true or false?"—if the...
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  • thus distorting the meaning and generating logical paradoxes. One example is the liar paradox, a paradox in philosophy or logic that arises when a sentence...
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  • Priest and Richard Sylvan (then Routley).[citation needed] The liar paradox and Russell's paradox deal with self-contradictory statements in classical logic...
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  • ω-consistency may be weakened to consistency. Rather than using the liar paradox sentence equivalent to "I am not provable," he used a sentence that stated...
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  • lying.", namely the liar paradox and Epimenides paradox, whose origins are ancient Russell–Myhill paradox The Burali-Forti paradox, about the order type...
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