Can You Answer This Question?

Question

Your mission is not to accept the mission. Do you accept?

Answer 1

This is a classic logic problem that stems from what is called "The Liar Paradox". It runs back to ancient Greek times when the Cretan philosopher Epimenides said "all Cretans are liars". In saying this, he was referring to himself, and the truth of the statement flipped in circles. If it was true, then it was false, and if was false it was true...

Philosophers have claimed that the problem with such sentences is that they are "self referential" but this is not the whole problem since many self-referential sentences are fine e.g. "this sentence has 26 letters in it".

There are many soloutions to this but the most commonly accepted it Tarksi. Tarski held that truth propostions could ONLY be adequately defined for a language which is not 'semantically closed', that is, for one which does not contain either its own truth predicate or, crucially in this example, the means to refer to its own expressions.

If you want to find out more about Tarksi, you should read his: ‘The Semantic Conception of Truth’

Answer 2

I accept that I will not accept the mission. And because of that I will not accept the mission

Answer 3

I accept to not to accept.

Answer 4

No

Answer 5

Yes.  I accept the mission of not accepting the mission.  Therefore, no, I don't accept.  *Boom* my head exploded.

Answer 6

YES !

Answer 7

I can say no and just not take the pointless mission

:)

Answer 8

it depends on what the mission is...