Variations On The Paradox
- The liar paradox has similar self-reference, with the added twist that rejecting it leads to another paradox.
- If everything is possible, then it is possible for anything to be impossible.
- The only rule is that there are no rules.
- The only thing certain is that there is nothing certain.
- If everything has an opposite, then the opposite of there being an opposite to everything, is that there is not an opposite to everything.
- If everything should be taken in moderation, then moderation should itself be taken moderately, meaning that not everything would be taken in moderation.
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