It was me replying to this topic..
Topic/OP:
Is this statement true or false?
This statement is false.
The classic liar paradox, discuss.
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My response:
Let's define the word recursive:
Quote:
Originally Posted by dictionary.com
pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
I find the sentence(OP) to be unimportant. <_<
Here's why:
The statement says nothing about anything but itself. Without outside reason for it to be important, it has no importance, and the answer is not worth forming for that reason. It's kind of like "what's x divided by zero?"
"Clearly if you look at a graph, x/0 is positive and negative infinity," ect.
Ask it like this, and I'm sure ALT would agree:
How would you tell this to a computer? Computers do not do useless commands. They can do anything you can think, although for some things they may be slow, if it is logical, they can do it. They think of true and false in terms of 0 = false, and [not 0] = true. You can tell it "x(){x(this)!=x(this) " and that will never return an answer because it will keep doing x() until x() gives a good answer, and it never will.
Recursive questions require recursive answers. Not always, but in this case it sure does.