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Liar or not? (Posted on 2002-11-12) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A man walks up to you and says:
"Everything I say to you is a lie."

Is he telling you the truth or is he lying?

See The Solution Submitted by Raveen    
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re: Not a paradox | Comment 9 of 38 |
(In reply to Not a paradox by Happy)

I would agree with this reasoning, except for the fact that the man doesn't actually tell you anything else.

If he said "My name is Bob, and everything I tell you is a lie", then yes, you can say that him being named Bob will yield a satisfactory paradoxless resolution to the problem.

But since the ONLY thing he said is that everything he says is a lie... I'm not quite sure. This makes the problem interesting.
  Posted by levik on 2002-11-13 14:22:36

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