The Liar Paradox
"This sentence is false." Decide whether you are looking at something true or something false, and see how far you get.
c. 600 BCE (the Epimenides line); c. 350 BCE (Eubulides' paradox)26 min read
Archaic Cretan seer and poet (semi-legendary)
Epimenides of Knossos
A Cretan poet and purifier of the seventh or sixth century BCE, surrounded by legend — including a fifty-seven-year sleep in a cave. A line attributed to him, "Cretans are always liars", is quoted in the Epistle to Titus and is the reason his name is attached to the Liar paradox. He almost certainly never intended it as a paradox, and it is not one.