Liar Paradox Analysis

In sixth century B.C., a Greek Philosopher named Epimenides who is a Cretan stated, “All Cretans are liars.” This statement was the start of the liar paradox. The liar paradox is a statement in which it says that the statement itself or the subject who said the statement is lying. Other examples of this paradox are “What I am now saying is false” or “This sentence is false.”
The reason statements like “This sentence is false” is a paradox, or contradictory, is because if that whole statement is false then it is not true that “This sentence is false,” and so the “sentence” is true. However, if that whole statement is true then it is true that “This sentence is false,” so therefore that “sentence” is false. Because of this, one would not know whether the statement is actually true or false since there is a contradiction between the two possible answers.
There are many possible solutions to solve the liar paradox, and one of them is to ban self-referential and indexical statements. A self-referential …show more content…
As mentioned before self-referential statements do not work because of the dual liar paradox. Earlier I used a version of the dual liar paradox to further explain my solution, and as one can tell, it works. With my solution, there is no need to pay attention to the self-references since the main idea is to just accept the statements for what it says and not what the references say about each other. My solution is also better than disallowing meaningless statements because declarative statements all already have some sort of meaning. It doesn’t matter if one thinks what it or they said is true or false. If a person said their favorite ice cream is strawberry then the only meaning that exists is its own or in this case of the person who said