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“A sheet of paper has the words “The statement on the other side of this paper is true” written on one side and “The statement on the other side of this paper is false” on the reverse. The conflict isn’t resolvable. Or, closer to the point, the following assertion: “This statement is unprovable.” 5…” quote by Richard Bookstaber
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““A sheet of paper has the words “The statement on the other side of this paper is true” written on one side and “The statement on the other side of this paper is false” on the reverse. The conflict isn’t resolvable. Or, closer to the point, the following assertion: “This statement is unprovable.” 5 You cannot prove the statement is true, because doing so would contradict it. If you prove the statement is false, then that means its converse is true—it is provable—which again is a contradiction.””

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