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This you, Ted Cruz? (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2021
OP
A religious charlatan saying someone else is a pathological liar creates sort of a paradox.
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2021
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world wide wally
(21,755 posts)1. I guess he just got stupider as he got older.
dalton99a
(81,625 posts)2. Kick
TheBlackAdder
(28,224 posts)3. A religious charlatan saying someone else is a pathological liar creates sort of a paradox.
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In philosophy and logic, the classical liar paradox or liar's paradox or antinomy of the liar is the statement of a liar that he or she is lying: for instance, declaring that "I am lying". If the liar is indeed lying, then the liar is telling the truth, which means the liar just lied. In "this sentence is a lie" the paradox is strengthened in order to make it amenable to more rigorous logical analysis. It is still generally called the "liar paradox" although abstraction is made precisely from the liar making the statement. Trying to assign to this statement, the strengthened liar, a classical binary truth value leads to a contradiction.
If "this sentence is false" is true, then it is false, but the sentence states that it is false, and if it is false, then it must be true, and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
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LeftInTX
(25,577 posts)4. "But, I was just saying this so I could win my primary"
Cruz is also a pathological library and he could care less what he said about Trump or what Trump said about his wife. Cruz and Trump are on the same level of evil. He's my senator and you would not believe the BS he posts. He's right up there with Gohmert
struggle4progress
(118,359 posts)5. I wonder if Trump has been black-mailing him
keithbvadu2
(36,938 posts)6. Were you lying when you said this, Rafael?
Were you lying when you said this, Rafael?
lame54
(35,326 posts)7. Ted Cruz told the truth and lost...
So, why the hell would he ever do that again?