What's wrong with saying that all humans are always wrong?
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ETpro (
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April 13th, 2013
If I asserted that, might I be right?
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it suggests that you don’t know what you’re talking about the moment you assert it.
No, beacause sometimes (although not in this instance) human beings are right.
I’m never wrong. Therefore, that makes you wrong. ;}~
No, you would be wrong.
You could not be right, because that would mean that your statement would be wrong, making you wrong, causing a paradox. Of course, that only applies if you, the claimant, are human.
All absolutes are by definition incorrect. There is no such thing as an absolute.
The problem here, @ETpro, is that you are human, so the assertion amounts to Epimenides’ Paradox: “This statement is false.” It has indeterminate truth value, rendering it meaningless.
No. Because all negative statements are always false.
…except on rainy days and Mondays.
@ragingloli is always wrong but this time he is absolutely right thus disproving your premise.
If the statement is made by a human it’s the same self-contradictory preposition as “All Cretans are liars.” spoken by Epimendes or someone saying “This sentence is false.”
All generalizations, including this one, are incorrect.
Damn, I can’t fool you guys. At least some of you, some of the time. Way to go @ragingloli. You picked up on the game I was playing. The fact that I made “epistemological nihilism” one of the topics was a clue, maybe.
If you see the logical contradiction in my making such an assertion, doesn’t that falsify the concept of epistemological nihilism? After all, it would always be possible for someone to make such an assertion, and if epistemological nihilism were true, then their statement would be true, thus negating itself.
@elbanditoroso Nice one-upmanship. I got a good chuckle out of that answer.
@AstroChuck That’s the game.
@Dr_Lawrence Yep, in the same spirit. Well, generally so.
@ETpro- But then again, how do we really know if you are human?
@elbanditoroso ”All absolutes are by definition incorrect. There is no such thing as an absolute.”
The Consummate Paradox
@ninjacolin Possibly, but more likely you don’t know what he’s talking about.
@LuckyGuy So if all negative statements are false; are all positive statements true?
If you’re a human, and you say that all humans are wrong, then that means that you are wrong, and then that would mean that all humans are right. Damn paradoxes.
When we arn’t arguing amonst ourselves who else thinks that the most popular paradoxes are in some way spiritual? I like paradoxes, they are interesting. If you can show me they’re B/S great, otherwise they provide a bored mind with stimulation. And I’m bored, I’ll take what I can get, lol.
If all humans are wrong (and since you are human, you must also be wrong)...If you are right, that doesn’t mean all humans are right. Just that they aren’t all wrong.
@kitszu Congratulations. You got into the Zen of it. Robert McCloskey captured the gist of it.
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
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