Teaser Tuesday! June 24, 2014

Time to get those brains warmed up! Hope everyone finds this one challenging.

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Question

Someone claims to have invented a Universal Truth Machine that takes a proposition as input, and returns "true", "false", or "undecidable" as output. Example:

Input: "2 + 2 = 4"
Output: "True"

Input: "0 + 2 = 4"
Output: "False"

Input: "This sentence is false"
Output: "Undecidable"

Devise a true proposition that the Universal Truth Machine will claim to be false, thereby disproving the inventor's claim.

Good Luck!

 
Best Response

"While arguing with his wife, John was correct"

In this scenario, John is in fact correct about his side of the argument but any universal truth machine will say otherwise.

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Skinnayyy:

"While arguing with his wife, John was correct"

In this scenario, John is in fact correct about his side of the argument but any universal truth machine will say otherwise.

+1 - I respect your wisdom!

 

Aside from word play...maybe we could also do something with time.

E.g. "It is exactly 12 o'clock". Any form of measurement will never be able to pinpoint an exact time, only an approximation (like 11:59:59.99999 repeating). However, we know that 12:00 exists, occurring sometime between 11:59 and 12:01. Since the machine will never be able to say "true" at any point between 11:59 and 12:01, the system fails.

 

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