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Ever heard about the Liar Paradox?
The liar paradox, also known as the liar sentence, states “this sentence is false.” If that statement makes you go a little crazy, you’re not the first one. The liar paradox first came about in ancient Greece, and philosophers have been puzzling over it ever since. It’s even said that the gravestone of scholar Philetas of Cos, from the third century B.C.E., is engraved with the words “‘Twas the Liar who made me die, And the bad nights caused thereby.”
Here’s why the liar paradox causes philosophers so much grief: if the sentence is true, then it must be false. But if the sentence is false, then it must be true. That’s what makes it a paradox. It’s an argument that leads to a self-contradictory conclusion. There are probably as many schools of thought on how to solve this paradox as there are philosophers in the world, but one thing is true (not false!): it highlights the limitations of classical logic.