KidzTalk - Recent questions tagged paradox

The fundamental flaw of the liar's paradox

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:03:57 +0000

You know it, right? "This sentence is false." Obviously, if it's false, then that means it's true, because it SAYS it's false but that's false, so it's true. Do you follow? Anyway. But, well, if it's TRUE (if what it says is true) then it's false, because what it says is that it's false.

But the fundamental flaw of this classic paradox is that the sentence itself doesn't have any objective information or truth. If it was referring to a specific claim, like "avocadoes are blue" and saying THAT was false, it would be correcting a false statement, therefore giving us more information. But "This sentence is false"... what do you even do with that information? It's referring to itself, which creates this whole loop that goes on and on and on...

All of this to say, this sentence makes no sense and is useless.

Thank you.

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Pick One

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:51:39 +0000

If you get it right you will win a surprise :)
Look very carefully at the 1st letters, you might find the answer in there.

You can only pick one.

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:09 +0000

Choose wisely.

The Astley Paradox (and no, I’m not Duke.)

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 04:41:39 +0000

If you ask Rick Astley for a copy of the movie Up, he won’t give it to you, because he’s Never Gonna Give You Up. However, by doing so, he just let you down, basically betraying his song.

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

if everything is possible, is it possible for something to be impossible?

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:19:35 +0000

lol