“If you were to ask me if I always lie, I would say ‘yes’.”
Which would be saying the truth. Which contradict itself.
No—if they were to ask you, you would lie and say “no”. So the claim that you’d make a true statement is still a lie.
you don’t need to say yes if someone asks you?
You won’t have to lie to said question, but you’d have to tell the truth to do that… or that be a lie too… well, OC is partly right. But it isn’t a surefire solution.
If your interlocutor end up asking you the question anyway, you either have to answer “yes”, in which case OC told the truth and then you don’t always lie, which means you lied to the answer (as you donlt always lie). Or you answer “No”, which means you lied in OC, but told the truth as an answer.
Either way, there is no solution to this paradox. You cannot tell that you always lie without telling a truth.
Someone’s been studying the 2 guardians puzzle.
On the other hand, anyone who tells you, “I always tell the truth,” is probably lying.
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You can say the statement. Doesn’t mean the statement is true. You might be a habitual liar and that particular statement is a lie.
Unfortunately you are wrong as there is a very distinct way to say the phrase you quoted, that being to utter the words “I always lie.”
“I don’t always lie.” wink
“I lie a lot” would also work.
Except for this statement, I always lie.
i always lie
“Starting at the moment this statement ends, I will always lie.”
I’m a habitual liar. close enough 🤷♂️
“Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.”
Not quite. You missed the fact that it doesn’t need to be the entire statement. “I always lie when I say that the sky is green”
Technically you can’t always lie (“always” is the key here) so the statement can’t be true. Besides that you can say the words in that specific order, no problem.
I’m a compulsive liar.
I DON’T always lie
You could be saying the truth or lying in this instance.
Couldn’t you just say that you’re a politician? IMO that would be close enough.
