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?

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