The Number Shortage Paradox

An explanation of the paradox that arises when a sentence changes its own truth value in the middle, including looking at self-reference, illocution, self-affirming statements and self-defeating statements.

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Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Collier-MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, and more! (#xkcd #paradox )