Except for this statement, I always lie.
I’m a habitual liar. close enough 🤷♂️
“Starting at the moment this statement ends, I will always lie.”
How do I know that wasn’t a lie and that you will occasionally still be telling the truth?
Unfortunately you are wrong as there is a very distinct way to say the phrase you quoted, that being to utter the words “I always lie.”
“If you were to ask me if I always lie, I would say ‘yes’.”
You won’t have to lie to said question, but you’d have to tell the truth to do that… or that be a lie too… well, OC is partly right. But it isn’t a surefire solution.
If your interlocutor end up asking you the question anyway, you either have to answer “yes”, in which case OC told the truth and then you don’t always lie, which means you lied to the answer (as you donlt always lie). Or you answer “No”, which means you lied in OC, but told the truth as an answer.
Either way, there is no solution to this paradox. You cannot tell that you always lie without telling a truth.
