Should people disrespect St. Paul about the Liar's Paradox or are they fundamentally misinterpreting what he said? (photo: Register Files) Jimmy Akin Blogs January 24, 2015.

A mathematician explores the liar paradox. April 3, 2011 -- Lies, lies, lies. Prone to stretching logic, alleging deceit, and passing on gossip, politicians and the media that report on them are a ...

The Liar Paradox is an ancient philosophical puzzle that has challenged philosophers attempting to find a resolution. 00:00 - This sentence is false 01:00 - The problem 04:36 - Can the Liar be ...

I vaguely remember such a thing as the Liar’s Paradox. Someone says: I (always) lie. If that’s a lie, he spoke the truth. But he lied. Paradox! Suddenly, I thought that’s nonsense.

The paradox is this: if a liar indeed lied, then his admission of his lies is truthful. Unless, of course, he is lying about the lie and everything else. You can never really know.

The Liar’s Paradox has been discussed and adapted many times, eventually leading to the Pinocchio Paradox. It follows the same general structure, but with an added visual component.

The inability to reach a conclusion produced by the Liar Paradox is because of self-reference—that is, it results because Epimenides includes himself in his statement; if he did not, no paradox ...

It’s most obvious in the setup of the liar paradox, but you can see it in the crocodile version too, albeit slightly malformed: “[T]here is a crucial difference between the Liar and the ...