Paradox
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No, he is lying.RabidusUnus said:
If he was telling the truth then nothing would make sense. However, if he is lying about this, that means that he occasionally tells the truth. We don't know, but since him telling the truth does not make sense, then the only logical explanation is that he is lying right now, but not always.
He hangs the guy. It's pretty simple, this is by no means a paradox.
Scenario: The guy is lying and doesn't want to be hanged. Then he should be hanged by the hangman's own rules.
Scenario: The guy is telling the truth and wants to be hanged. Then the hangman has no qualms about hanging him anyway. It then becomes a moral problem instead.
New paradoxical problem: Can anybody explain the Twin Paradox...
Scenario: The guy is lying and doesn't want to be hanged. Then he should be hanged by the hangman's own rules.
Scenario: The guy is telling the truth and wants to be hanged. Then the hangman has no qualms about hanging him anyway. It then becomes a moral problem instead.
New paradoxical problem: Can anybody explain the Twin Paradox...
I think that you will be forever shunned by all Dutchmen for trying to make a generalization out of all of them.Ekonk said:
Maybe he's suicidal, and since there's a guy on a hill handing out free nooses, thought it was better than self-service.JaymesFogarty said:
I'm not sure if this is a paradox.
'Perfection is a paradox, because in order to be perfect, one must be perfect at being imperfect.'
'Perfection is a paradox, because in order to be perfect, one must be perfect at being imperfect.'
I think the OP meant that the hangman ONLY hangs people who lie about where they are going. So suppose he refuses to hang people who have not lied. That means that the man will still end up being a liar because he cannot be hanged. But now that he can be hanged he is telling the truth. So he must be set free and not hanged, which makes him a liar.Trivun said:
If he's lying about telling a lie, then he must be telling the truth, which is impossible because he says that everything he says is a lie.GloatingSwine said:
Impossible to determine without priveleged access to his mental state.RabidusUnus said:
Epiphenomenologically, we can only assume that he believes that what he is telling you is correct, and therefore he is not lying, because a lie is an intentional falsehood with intent to decieve.
Without prior experience of this man which would allow us to make a judgement about his current mental state, we cannot determine whether he is "lying". He could be entirely sincere in his belief that he always lies. He could be an escaped asylum inmate who speaks entirely in non-sequiturs. He could, simply, be on very very fine drugs.
He would just shoot him. Nothing was said about him not shooting anyone, lying or otherwise. Seriously, my brain hurts now.
Even in that case, you would have to show that the man coming to be hanged knew that the hangman only hanged people who lied about why they had come to him. If he did not know that he was still not lying, that was truthfully the reason he had come to the hill.Danman1 said:
No he isn't. But he's just lying now.RabidusUnus said:
If he were telling the truth, then what he's saying now is nullifying his actions.
But if he doesn't lie all the time, he can lie sometimes. So now he is lying.
OT: The hangman hangs only those who lie, so:
1. the dude isn't lying but the hangman can't fulfill his wish.
2. the dude didn't came to be hanged, but by saying he did, he lied. So the hangman will kill him.
In my opinion, there are no real possible paradoxes, just good logic games, or problems that are wrong, or missing something.
