because I was born blind. and I never lie. one of these statements is true. one of these statements is false.
nobody ever got this? it's a fake paradox.
a common paradox is the last two statements, but referring to each other. 'the following is true. the previous is false.' that is different from what it actually says.
furthermore, 'one of these statements is true' can be talking about itself, and be true, in which case it says nothing about the rest of the problem. this is important because the way I phrased it, might trick one into thinking that 'one of these statements is true' implies that all but one are false, but that would only be the case if I were only making 2 disagreeing statements. in fact I made 4 statements, which is another trick because the latter 2, some might think, would only apply to the former 2, and not all 4.
one of these statements actually was true. another one was also true. the other one that was true was that one of these statements were false. another one was also false. so there were two true statements and two false statements. and because there were 4 statements and I've said 2 are this and 2 are that, my statements can be taken to imply that there are Only 2 truths and 2 lies.
the idea was to distract people from the answer by causing them to focus either on the first 2 statements as a riddle, with the second 2 as rules for solving the 2 statement riddle; or to cause them to focus on the second 2 statements as the commonly known paradox which they are in fact not. 5 minutes of your life are mine forever.
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