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  Reasoning

True or False?		  
Q Read the following statement in capital letters and think about whether it is true or false.

THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE.

What do you think? Explain what makes this statement so confusing.


  
A If the statement is true, then it must be false; but if it's false, then it's true! The word for such a statement that contradicts itself
isparadox. By the way, this is probably the only statement you can make that is neither true nor false.