The world's most difficult puzzle is actually a single sentence

CANT BE DETERMINED

the following statement is false.

Incorrect!

Both statements are false.

Done.

Close, but no cigar!

Then there is a trick or condition placed on the answer that was not stated.

Something like: Since both statements cause a never ending loop, the answer is pi.

Neither is true.

I think this is known as the Epimenides paradox.

Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement: "All Cretans are liars''.

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Oh, I get it: The output is ZERO. That's a divide by zero.

Only a divide by zero has no computational output at all.

It is a divide by zero function.

Spin it around?

to be clear: zero divided by zero, not any number or decimal divided by zero.

This equals no output and processor shut down.

It is false that the previous statement is true?

You lied.

LOL! Is your Brian hurting yet?

Equilibrium.

INCORRECT PUNCTUATION ?

I learned in school that they are both false, because logical priority goes to falsification rather than truth assertion.

Just like in maths: a plus and a minus together equals a minus.

the answer lies in the COLON

the part of the sentence that reads "the previous statment is false", is NOT referring to the first part of the sentence. its referring to something wholly unrelated, which the first part of the sentence is claiming to be true.

there is nothing incongruent, or logically self-referential

its a non-conditional statement

Last Edited by Life_Dweller on 04/14/2019 01:35 AM

CATCH 22

not sure about this ...

"statement p is TRUE"

is logically equivalent to

"statement NOT-p is FALSE"

there is no priority, as I can see.

Chicken egg nonsense.

Haven't read all the posts but, both statements are true!

The first statement declares the second statement...

Falsification may refer to:

The act of disproving a proposition, hypothesis, or theory: see Falsifiability

A statement, hypothesis, or theory has falsifiability (or is falsifiable) if it is contradicted by a basic statement, which, in an eventual successful or failed falsification, must respectively correspond to a true or hypothetical observation.... The concept was introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper.


"Investor and philanthropist George Soros, a self-described follower of Karl Popper"



a possible SOROS SHILL detected? a conspiracy?


The term open society was coined in 1932 by French philosopher Henri Bergson.[1][2] The idea was further developed during the Second World War by Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper.








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They're both half right.

:

HELLO WORLD

The Cretans always lie (says the Cretan)

Water is metal.


Solve that OP.