PARADOX? I'm not so sure?

Question:Everything I tell you is a lie.

Is this a paradox or not? source of adequate mental confusion for me over the years....

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Everything I tell you is a lie.

Is this a paradox or not? source of adequate mental confusion for me over the years....

No. Neither is it a contradiction.
A paradox implies two apparently true circumstances that contradict each other. This statement does not allow the formation of those statements. To say that 'everything' you say is a lie and be telling the truth you must be lying. If you are lying about lying then your statement is defunct. It does not necessarily follow that 'everything' you say is true (and obviously it can't be). This only works as a mendbender if you make that assumption.
The statements that can be attempted to be drawn are:
I am a liar - no
I tell the truth - no
which all boils down to - I lie sometimes!

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
(Joseph Heller, Catch-22)

Now thats a paradox!

Yes it is. If you assume that the statement is true then it must be a lie but then if it is a lie than it contradicts itself so you can go on like that forever.

sigh ...

A paradox can be an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition; or it can be, seemingly opposite, an apparent contradiction that actually expresses a non-dual truth. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The word paradox is often used interchangeably with contradiction. Often, mistakenly, it is used to describe situations that are ironic.

But can I believe you?

the mathematical logic behind this says that you are indeed a liar. I learned this is Discrete Math last year. If you want to look at it like a statistic, here..

you can either be lying about lying, which makes you a liar
or you can be telling the truth about lying which makes you a liar.
you can be telling the truth about telling the truth which means you're being honest
or you can be telling the truth about lying which makes you a liar

in 3 of those 4 situations, you're a lying piece of doo doo. chances are, you're lying!

yes it is because it contradicts itself.

you say everything you tell us is a lie.
so you must be lying.
which would make it true.
which would make it a lie.
and on and on and on.

Not really, that proposition is too narrow to be a paradox. It's actually kinda stupid. Many arguments can be made here. First, because you're not telling everything. Second, because there's only 'you' to tell...

Good luck!

It's a double negative that makes the statement true. Since you are telling people you are lying, the fact that the statement itself is about lying, the statement becomes true.

Since the statement is fairly clear, it's hardly a paradox. A paradox indicates a situation where there is no way out, and events opposes one another without resolution.

XR

This is not a paradox. A paradox is a situation where two of the situations tend to co-exist but can never exist in reality. For example the famous twin paradox of Einstein where in one of the twin goes to outer space only to find out that the other twin has become aged upon coming back to earth.

the sentence which you have mentioned can have an alternate situation co-existing wherein some of the sentences you say may be true...... so this cannot be a paradox