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It's very easy. "This message does not exist" can be taken to be a false statement, without introducing any contradiction. It is not like "this message is fal
by kazinator 2y ago
It's very easy.
"This message does not exist" can be taken to be a false statement, without introducing any contradiction.
It is not like "this message is false" (Liar's Paradox) or "this sentence has no proof" (Gödel's sentence).
Unfortunately, just because "this message does not exist" is a false statement, contradicted by existential evidence, doesn't mean that the remaining claims next to it can be dismissed as false.
- kelnos 2y agoPerhaps not, but if one encounters a false statement, then it is reasonable to assume any following (and previous) statements are suspect as well. Also I think you are missing the point. This is clearly written tongue-in-cheek. The author is being entirely rhetorical; they're not asking you to solve the apparent inconsistency. They just thought the error message was silly, and that working through it logically (as if each statement in the error message is true and correct) is a funny exercise.
- kazinator 2y agoThe statement has a true interpretation. "This message" can be interpreted as referring to some object in a back-end database represented by text you see in the UI. The thing you see on the screen corresponds to no persistent representation in the system. "This person does not exist" under an AI-generated image similarly tells the truth; the image is not the person.
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