True or false?
by A.
This statement is incorrect!
True or false?
It is neither, though it can be either - or maybe the other
way round is the position to take if it’s not already.
Though I say I am close I am as far away as it is possible
to be.
We say we live by truth (or at least, we aspire to) – but
what is truth? An ideal? Something lacking falsehood or deception, perhaps?
Exercises in logic show that truth for all its depth is
shallow and behind the concepts of truth and lies, lies a yet truer world of what
someone has termed ‘paralogic’: a place where things of apparent contradiction
not only co-exist but co-habit in a more than civil union.
Opposites attract in so many ways and are in fact reliant on
each other in order to make an appearance.
Can evil exist without good, or lies without truth, or
love . . .
But wait a minute, in a limbo that cannot exist without
substance, love just might be an exception. It has no opposite. It doesn’t feel
right to give it one.
The truth of the words ‘this statement is incorrect’ is not
superficial – no court room could ask you to swear in a Bible as to its veracity.
If one statement can do so much, what IS truth?
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