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Old 05-21-2004, 10:57 AM   #25 (permalink)
noahfor
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He says: "I will be poisoned to death"

If they poison him then the statement was true, which means that he should have been hanged, but if they hang him the statement was false so he should have been poisoned, and they get stuck in this paradox, so they just let him go. Is that correct?
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