. ‘This statement is false’ seems to be false if true, and true if false. Traditionally attributed to Epimenides the Cretan in the (inadequate) form, ‘All Cretans are liars’, this paradox is often called a semantic PARADOX. It...

In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical statements such as "This statement is false." or "The next sentence is false. The previous sentence is true." These statements are paradoxical because there is no way to assign them a...