Obviously the following statement is 'False':
"This sentence contains Seven words".

So we correct the sentence by changing it to:
This sentence does not contain Seven words".

We know that the First statement is False and so now can we conclude that the Second statement is True ?

If you look closely at the first sentence it does in fact contain 7 words...

This (1) sentence (2) contains (3 and 4) seven (5) words (6 and 7).

Being a scrabble fan I know that contain is a word and contains is a different word...same arguement for word(s). So i feel the 1st statement is true.

Following this same principle...the second sentence is TRUE. This(1) sentence (2) does (3) not(4) contain (5) seven(6) words (7 and 8) because in fact...it contains 8 words not 7.

just a guess :)

Posted by ashley on 2003-05-10 13:55:45