True Or Lies?

Question

A man walks up to you and says - "everything I say to you is a lie."
Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

Answer 1

LIE. YOU WILL CONTRADICT YOURSELF IF IT WAS THE TRUTH BUT YOU CAN LIE AND NEVER CONTRADICT YOURSELF COZ IT IS EASY TO TELL LIES!

NOW MY 10 POINTS PLEASE. THANK YOU. GOD BLESS ISRAEL.

Answer 2

I don't see why it's a paradox.

a) If he always lied, then he would be telling the truth. X wrong
b) If he always told the truth, then he would be telling a lie. X wrong
c) If he sometimes told the truth and sometimes lied, then he would be telling a lie. Possible.

Therefore he is lying.

Then again if that was all he ever said to you and walked away.... ok.

Answer 3

You have to hear him patiently. Do not take hurried decision. When he completes his saying then take few minutes for thinking. If a person tell lie, one can judge from his face and continuity of his presentation. You can cross check yourself and guess whether he is telling lie or truth. The person who is telling lie commit mistakes like changing the versions often. Lie will not stand long. Lier has to accept his guilt at a latter date.

Answer 4

Lie

Answer 5

it is not a logically valid statement or question

it's like asking can god make a rock so big he can't lift it

cute...and fun, but logically invalid

non-statement, non-answer, nonsense

the rules that govern language, communication, and logic do not allow for such a formulation (even though it is *grammatically* acceptable in the english language :-)

but...to play the game

after making such a statement, if he tells the truth even once, he is a liar; if he only lies, he is a liar (truly a liar, eh :-)

having made such a statement would make him a liar..."everything" he says includes the original statement since it was something, some part of "everything" that he said...if that statement were or could be true, it would make him a liar

the trick is that the *question,* the latter part above, after the quote marks attempts to define the situation as temporally limited to the present tense...however, the statement within the quote marks is trans-temporal (ie -- past, present, and future tense) by using the word *everything*

like the question: "have you stopped beating your wife/husband yet?"

if you say yes, by the rules of language and logic, you used to beat your wife/husband but have now stopped

if you say *no,* then by the rules of language and logic, you have been beating your wife and are still doing so

if you say *i don't and never have beat my wife,* you have not really answered the original question

when god created man and put him in the garden, he said, "do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it, *you will surely die*"

satan then says to the woman, "did god really say that you could not eat from any tree in the garden..."

the first trick question; god didn't say any such thing

he totally changed the parameters of what god had said to make it sound as though god had said something he had not really said (thus confusing the woman momentarily; of course she was already confused because *a serpent* was talking to her and her husband had already named all the animals in the garden and none of them could speak as a man...so she began to wonder what other *knowledge* there might be to know that was not yet known to them...i mean why would god want to keep people ignorant in regard to some things...for the same reason that you don't want your kid to *learn the knowledge* of how to shoot addictive drugs into his arm, or how to make a bomb so he can take it to school and blow up his classmates

there are some things that are better left unknown, that can bring no benefit but only pain and suffering

and so it was of our father in heaven and we his children on earth...he wanted to protect us from that which could/would bring us to experience pain and suffering and evil and death

then moments later satan quoted god but added one word to say precisely the opposite of what god had said, "you will NOT surely die..."

quoting, using god's own words...but adding one (don't add to or take away from god's word), completely changed the original meaning...one of his favorite tricks

ok -- that'll do, that'll do...overdone even :-)

Answer 6

The statement "I am lying to you" contains no information except a self-referential declaration on truth value. This is the logical equivalent to division by zero. The truth value is in fact indeterminate.

Answer 7

he is telling you the truth. because people lie all the time about everything.

Answer 8

I have heard this one sooo many times in sooo many different forms and I can kind of remember the logic around it...but I can not, for the life of me, think of the correct answer and it's gonna drive me nuts now? (As I think happened the LAST time someone posted this question, which was yesterday I think.)

Now, I won't be able to sleep until I know the answer, thanks. LOL

PS TY Giddion, that was the answer I rememberd. "no truth value". Now I can sleep.

Answer 9

He's telling a lie.

Answer 10

Who cares? Now if the title of this page was "Logic" instead of Earth Science and Geology, then this question would make sense.

Answer 11

I think he's may be telling the truth and he doesn't want to cheat u any more..