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    Epimenides Paradox

    Statement

    The Epimenides paradox is the self-contradiction inherent in the statement,

    Alternate description

    Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement:

    History

    formulation date | 550 BC (2573 years ago) formulator | Epimenides status | not necessarily a true paradox additional people involved | Bertrand Russell

    Current evidence

    Not a true paradox since the poet may have knowledge that at least one Cretan is, in fact, honest, and so is lying when he says that all Cretans are liars. There therefore need be no self-contradiction in what could simply be a false statement by a person who is himself a liar.

    Classes

    ambiguous problem | mathematical paradoxes

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