Anime Explains the Epimenides Paradox

I did not create this video and I have no idea who did; the original file name was truefalsempeg1.mpg.

The Epimenides Paradox or Liar Paradox is "This sentence is false."

Why am I posting this video? Well... type hierarchies are supposed to resolve the Epimenides paradox. Using an indefinitely extensible, indescribably infinite, ordinal hierarchy of meta-languages. No meta-language can contain its own truth predicate - no meta-language can talk about the "truth" or "falsity" of its own sentences - and so for every meta-language we need a meta-meta-language.

This video does a pretty good job of depicting how I feel about that: pretty much the same way I feel about the original Epimenides Paradox.

Bonus problem: In what language is this video description written?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• math
• anime
• amv
• epimenides
• paradox
• liar

[soldierofkazus]

However, this statement contains nothing by which to define its truth or falsehood and is therefore meaningless.

[CannibalSmith]

Best Contemplate Our Navels ever!

[pietrolunz]

that's the only false part

[pietrolunz]

obviously this sentence isn't

[Ayanami555]

@mi9worm But then I couldn't use it to torment people.

[DragoSonicMile]

You've used rhetorical language to write the video description.

Although, region-wise, it's only correct to say that you've written it in English.

[UltimasIsland]

English? (video description)

[mi9worm]

You could just do a normal video instead of making this so freaky!

[soldierofkazus]

@VictorLepanto You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The meaning of a "fact" is something that can be proven true OR false. There are true facts, there are false facts, and there are non-facts. Opinions, for instance, are neither true nor false.

That said, the idea that "This statement is false" is grammatically meaningless is precisely my contention, as it contains nothing to evaluate on the basis of truth or falsehood.

[VictorLepanto]

@soldierofkazus: A statement is either true or it is not, if it is NOT a statement of actual fact, it thus neceesarily false. Only a gramatically meaningless noise can be neither true or false. If the statement, This statement is true, doesn't reference an actual object of fact it is false. For there is nothing which can make it true. Only an actual fact referenced can make a statement true. If I say, I'm wearing a red shirt, that is false whether I wear a white shirt or no shirt.

[soldierofkazus]

@VictorLepanto No, that's the opposite of correct. It is devoid of meaning, neither true nor false. It signifies nothing, and the answer to it is nothing. "This statement is false" is neither true nor false.  Full stop.

[CrimsonVermillioneye]

Logic, what have you done?