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If the statement below is logical, then is it true or false?

"Yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

False True Neither

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Denton Young by Denton Young , 47, USA

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Denton Young
Sep 1, 2016

Assume A is true. Then what it states is correct. But what it states is that A is false.

Now assume A is false. Then what it states is incorrect. So since it claims that A is false, A cannot be false.

So it can't be either.

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And because we know that a statement can be either true or false but never both as said in the principle of identity we can conclude that the whole system proposed for understanding and elaborating logically is it may be said simply inconsistent and not sound for a system anyway.

A A - 4 years, 9 months ago

Or in other words the system makes no sense and is illogical as least as long as the validity of the statement "a proposition is either true or false but not both" or the so called principle of identity is to be applied as true , or we may simply say that the here anyway in the problem system is simply not consistent with the law of the identity anyway.

A A - 4 years, 9 months ago

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