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		laszlokorte on Feb 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: George Boole and the Calculus of Thought (2018) "I always lie" is easy to resolve: He can not always lie because that would be a contradiction. But he is currently lying. Sometimes he says the truth but currently he is not.

_emacsomancer_ on Feb 6, 2019 [–]

A slightly-less trivial version of the liar's paradox would be:

(3) Sentence (3) is false.

(Or, "What I am saying right now is a lie.")

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