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“It is very queer in a way that [the Liar Paradox] should have puzzled anyone – much more extraordinary than you might think: that this should be the thing to worry human beings. Because the thing works like this: if . . .

“It is very queer in a way that [the Liar Paradox] should have puzzled anyone – much more extraordinary than you might think: that this should be the thing to worry human beings. Because the thing works like this: if a man says ‘I am lying’ we say that it follows that he is not lying, from which it follows that he is lying and so on. Well, so what? You can go on like that until you are black in the face. Why not? It doesn’t matter.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics

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