Is every statement either true or false? What about this one: "This statement is false."
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Depends on what the statement is. Because if the sentence is correct and it is false, then that statement is true. It is true because it is false.
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simple, it's false
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If the statement is false, then the statement is true. And if its true, than the statement is false. Therefore you have a paradox on your hands.
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Before we go off of the philosophical deep end, this is an incomplete thought. Wouldn't "This statement is false." in the context of your question be a phrase or incomplete sentence rather than a freestanding one? The subject could be 'statement' but there is no verb. Wouldn't the word false be an adjective? If this is the case, then it seems to me that the part of the sentence with the actual statement that is being judged is missing. As I recall, properly written the phrase should appear, "This statement is false..." As to the question. Statements written or oral convey thoughts. A thought whose conveyance is intended to deceive would be false. A thought whose conveyance contains an error could not legitimately be called false as the error may not necessarily be intended to deceive. This sounds awful lawyerish, doesn't it.
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