alt Hacker NewsAgreed.
Not to mention that a liar doesn't necessarily have to mean someone who tells a falsehood in every single statement. It could just mean someone who frequently tells falsehoods. Or, more deviously, someone who wants to cause maximum uncertainty in his listeners, in which case some mix of true and false statements would probably be the way to go.
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fortran77 • 12/09/2024
In the world of logic puzzles, it is understood that a "liar" never makes a true statement, and that "vacuously true" statements are false.
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> Not to mention that a liar doesn't necessarily have to mean someone who tells a falsehood in every single statement.
FTA: >Note: this question was originally set in a maths exam, so the answer assumes some basic assumptions about formal logic. A liar is someone who only says false statements.
I think it's pretty clear how on definitions