The Nature of Truth
Steve Elgin and Kristian Falcon knew they would be side-by-side in the high school yearbook, so they decided to bend your brain a little with their quotes. If the first is true, how can the second be a lie? That’s hard enough to reconcile, but look -they are quoting each other! My brain is starting to melt. Is this completely nonsensical, or is there some real-world solution? -via mental_floss
So, which one is the knight and which one is the knave?
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I like this iteration better. ^_^
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These kinds of paradoxes come in very handy for short-circuiting robots.
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