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Start by addressing the assumption that sentences can be evaluated.
We shouldnt evaluate it, or otherwise our operating system might crash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel's_incompleteness_theorems
Ah yes. The halting problem of English.
Actually, are languages Turing complete? I feel like they’re complex and interactive enough to be. Searching it up only gave results about programming languages, not human languages.
I would guess that all human languages would be Turing complete. Human languages are a byproduct of how human mind processes information, so they share core constructs.
Aristoteles: “just because”
The following sentence is true. The previous sentence is false.
Then what is says is true, or it’s lying about what it’s saying is true