• Question: What is the Godel paradox?

    Asked by anon-18007 to Katherine on 12 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Katherine Haxton

      Katherine Haxton answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I have no idea! I’ve googled Godel and come across this paradox:

      ‘this statement is false’

      I have heard of this before,a long time ago in a really old episode of Doctor Who I think, where the Doctor used it to confuse a computer, but I didn’t know its name.
      It’s a paradox because if the statement is true, the statement is false, and if the statement is false, it’s actually true and so on and so on.

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