The statement below is false.
The statement above is true.
What statement is true?
2007-09-15 10:25:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
An expression that I came across sometime ago is "trying is lying". There is a difference in trying to figure out and actually figuring out. Watch when you hear people in your life use "try".
Both statements are problematic as they both begin as assertions that are untested and accepted as true.
As "the statement below is false" is the first premise which proves to be false. Any false premise can lead to a false conclusion.
The issue for us is, why do we accept and believe the first statement as true without first testing the veracity of the claim.
Or, by asking these questions, you created a paradox. In maintaining two conflicting statements/beliefs as true, you created a conflict in our thinking.
2007-09-15 10:36:29 · answer #1 · answered by guru 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One statement is true and, by definition, the other is false. It doesn't matter which one, it works either way. When one statement is false, it loses any ability to make a truthful assertion about the other statement.
2007-09-15 11:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change them up to weaken the newly formed tumor in your brain :
The following statement is false. The proceeding statement is true.
Both of the statements are unprovable.
2007-09-15 11:27:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The statement below is false.(A)
The statement above is true.(B)
+ (true), - (false)
A says that B is -. B says that A is +. So -B says that A is - which means that A says that B is +
OR
The statement below is true.
The statement above is false.
Same thing... I'd say they are both true and false.
2007-09-15 10:43:56 · answer #4 · answered by Alexander K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The above self referential staements have no real assertions
and therefore have no truth value (0,1). Therefore truth or
falsity cannot be assigned to either statement, and by
statement i mean a string of words.
2007-09-15 10:48:46 · answer #5 · answered by knashha 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the first one
2007-09-15 11:11:21 · answer #6 · answered by jme19914fun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difficulty with these propositions is that self-referentiality is at work. See Kurt Goedel's work about the incompleteness theorem.
2007-09-15 10:42:50 · answer #7 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask Hillary Clinton. She's a master at this kind of shyt.
2007-09-15 10:51:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
oh i got that in an email once, it made my brain hurt, and it still makes my brain hurt :P
2007-09-15 10:32:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
both, or neither, or the one in the middle.
2007-09-15 10:45:11 · answer #10 · answered by weirdo103 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋