This sentence is a lie.
I'll use the following definitions:
TRUTH--Binary 1. Correct as a proposition. Exists.
FALSE--Binary 0. Can be stated as NOT. Negation.
LIE--Opposite of TRUTH. Is the conjunction of mathematical falsity(FALSE) and propositional correctness, i.e. NOT TRUTH.
Beginning from the sentence's internal logic: If the sentence is a LIE, then we can infer that "it is FALSE that it is TRUTH". We rewrite the sentence as: "This sentence is NOT TRUTH" or "This sentence is FALSE".
As the sentence states it is a LIE, but is NOT TRUTH and FALSE*, we can clearly negative it to get a TRUTH, since the opposite of a LIE is TRUTH, and negativing creates an opposite. Negativing "This sentence is a lie," we get "This sentence is a TRUTH."
Since the sentence states that it is a LIE, or the opposite of the TRUTH, the sentence is externally seen to be FALSE as a proposition.
To be FALSE as a proposition is to be the opposite of TRUTH, or a lie. So, we can say with some certainty that it is TRUTH that the sentence is a LIE.
The sentence states that it is a LIE.
Thus, the sentence is TRUTH.
Stop.
Friday, December 01, 2006
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