2007-02-05 09:24:06 · 50 answers · asked by rhysaurus 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nice try, not quite there! The above statement is clearly a lie, but that doesn't have to flip into the paradoxical statement that "everything I say is true" - just that not everything is false.
So you, at least, sometimes lie and sometimes don't.
Whether that makes you a liar depends on:
- Your definition of liar
- How often that "sometimes" is.
Most people would not say that someone had to always lie to be a liar (that would disqualify everybody). Neither would most people say that if someone once lied they are a liar (that would make the entire world's population liars).
2007-02-05 09:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If I way that I always tell lies, will I be lying? It is not only the manner of speaking alone that constitutes a lie, it tell a lie is propose something or suggest something that leads up to disorder in a situation. If a person knows nothing about counting and I tell his that two comes before one that would be a lie, for the just order of things is corrupted.
Confession of one's untruthfulness is not a lie, but a governing truth for all the lies.
2007-02-06 02:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So many people live a life of lies do you no you are questioning if you tell lies what is a lie?is it something different not the norm politicians tell them all the time bosses a lie is a tool to gain power and control don't live a lie say what you mean and believe in then it isn't a lie is it?
2007-02-05 18:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by Psycho Dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's how Ulysse escaped the grasp of the cyclope.
It's an ever ending paradox.
If you are indeed a liar, then when you say everything you say is a lie, it's a lie, so everything you say is true, but you lied, because you said everything you say is a lie.
got to go, I've a nose bleed.
2007-02-09 02:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I say no, will it make me a liar.
(If it makes me a liar then that means you only need tell one lie to be a liar)
2007-02-05 20:27:10 · answer #5 · answered by dunkenM 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you cannot be. For if that statement is a lie, then you are not a liar all the time as the statement suggests.
2007-02-08 22:25:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Because you just admitted the truth that everything you say is a lie. Although, you said everything you say is a lie, so are you lying when you say you lie everytime you say something. Am I lying? Are you lying? It is all a matter of point of view of this specific question.
You could be an oxymoron. The oxymoron would be a truthful liar. That is what I believe you are, my friend.
2007-02-05 09:58:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would have to say if you lie, then you have to be a liar
2007-02-05 15:23:04 · answer #8 · answered by flower_from_the_heavens 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you say ''everything I say is a lie,so you are a liar'',that means you are telling a lie again.That is,everything you say is true and you aren't a liar.
2007-02-05 19:53:55 · answer #9 · answered by edd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to the philosophy that nothing is certain except for "i think therefore i am" then sure, for all practical purposes you can be called a liar.
But you are not. For in saying that everything you say is a lie, you are not lying.
2007-02-05 10:01:01 · answer #10 · answered by Hello there 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋