True or False.
2007-04-06 10:50:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
False and True!!! It will be the truth to the normal population--Lie to himself--because if he is a liar then nothing he ever says will sound like the truth!!
2007-04-06 11:05:30 · answer #1 · answered by deejei1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
False, obviously.
There really is no ambiguity. Anyone who tells a lie once is a liar, just as anyone who murders once is a murderer. Therefore a person who has previously told a lie is a liar, but is still free to tell the truth at any time.
Telling of the truth and being a liar are not mutually exclusive. A liar does not always lie.
2007-04-06 17:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by firefromabustedgun 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is what is called by English grammarians an "improper question". For example, answer yes or no do you still beat your wife? Obviously any yes or no answer will connote a negative value. The proper answer is neither yes or no but: I've never beaten my wife.
The English language is simply capable of semantic distortion: the tallest girl in class was shorter than all the rest or the slowest horse in the race was faster than all the rest. Why are they called 'apartments' when they're all stuck together? Is it true that lions don't eat clowns because they taste funny? And so on and so forth.
The Liar's Paradox, as found in every PHIL 101 course, is simply another semantic distortion and is not worth contemplating unless you're in Zen meditation trying to achieve enlightenment.
2007-04-06 18:12:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a trick question.
A liar cannot be clasified as a liar unless everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. Therefore, if a liar tells the truth he can't be a liar, because liars can only lie.
It is impossible for a liar to tell the truth because the second he does, he isn't a liar anymore.
2007-04-06 22:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by Savannah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, how can you tell if he/she is a liar if he tells the truth. And if his truth is he is a liar, how would a lie be the truth if it came from a liar that IS telling the truth.
2007-04-06 17:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A liar remains a liar in spite of a few moments of truth just as surely as a thief would remain a thief even if he returns half of what he has stolen.
2007-04-06 18:21:29 · answer #6 · answered by Bethany 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well u can word play and make the answer true and false. it's like that allstate commercial where they say "your car insurance won't go up JUST because of an accident." that could mean 2 things couldn't it, depending on the way u interpret it. are they lying, no. it can go up 4 no reason and they can go back to that commercial and say we said it wouldn't go up JUST because of an accident, so we raised it for something else.
2007-04-06 18:07:54 · answer #7 · answered by StealthShadow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really know if he really is even telling the truth? their a liar as you say, right!
2007-04-06 18:36:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone tells the truth, then he's not lying, at that moment at least.
2007-04-06 22:23:41 · answer #9 · answered by Camillo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
false,obviously he is not lying because he just said the truth.the fact that he has been lying doesn't mean that he would always lie and that if he says the truth he is still lying.so no no he's not lying.
2007-04-06 18:06:55 · answer #10 · answered by hotbabe#1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋