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    Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Dave Schuler
   (...) This is a restating of the "Liar Paradox" a la "Everything I say is a lie." If I recall my Logic course correctly, a statement of that sort has no distinct truth value one way or the other, in that (in context) it cannot be definably true or (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) I agree. c.f. Goedel. This statement has the truth value "undecidable" (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Dave Schuler
   (...) I'm sorry, but my knowledge of Goedel is incomplete. Dave! (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Andrew Lipson
     (...) Mine is inconsistent. Andrew (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Figure This One Out... Kinda Neat —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) I wasn't able to predict you'd say that, given the premises available to me in this frame of reference! ++Lar (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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