If I tell you that I've never told the truth in my life, did I just lie or tell the truth? And if I told the truth in that statement, was it also a lie since it was the truth???
2007-06-28 12:25:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You lied, as everyone speaks some truth in their life, it is unavoidable for functional communication. There may be great and constant untruths, but there are times when you speak when you are not lying, and therefore the statement is false. For example, "Bartender, I would like a beer." The request shows the preference to drink beer at that moment as a desire, and thus true that you would like a beer.
Questions like this must be solved within context.
2007-06-28 12:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by neuralzen 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope you lied... Cause I am sure you are covering up that lie.Everyone has told a lie .. Dont care who you are if its a white lie or a bad lie. You wouldnt be human if you didnt confess to telling a lie one way or the other. YOu are covering up a lie to tell your side of the truth.
2007-06-28 19:35:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your lie could be the truth in someone elses lie, and it could be a lie to someone elses truth.
2007-06-28 19:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by lifescircle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You just told the truth, because you spoke of the past ("I have never" means before now, "I never" would have included the present). Congratulations on turning over a new leaf!
2007-06-28 20:19:55 · answer #4 · answered by Leo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it could be both it just depends how you Say it because you may now just telling the truth
2007-06-28 19:37:07 · answer #5 · answered by Sam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you own stock in tylenol?
Paradoxes are self-created. You made a statement. I have no reason to "judge" the statement as true of false. It is mere a comment that you have made. I could care less whether it is true or false.
2007-06-28 19:41:09 · answer #6 · answered by guru 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the memorable words of Dean Vernon Wormer:
Fat, drunk, and plagiarizing semantic paradoxes are no way to go through life, son
2007-06-28 20:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by ycats 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but if you told me this I would probably feel sorry for you and then I would question your statement further because I don't fully get what you are saying here
2007-06-28 19:35:20 · answer #8 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well at least you won't have to lie down to recover from being struck by an original thought.
2007-06-28 20:54:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I answer your question, considering the fact that you don't know me, how will you know that I'm telling the truth?
2007-06-28 19:48:36 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋