In the revision theory it is argued that this gives a more correct account of truth and self-reference than Kripke's theory in which the liar sentence is simply assigned the value undefined.
Based on a memoir by Danny Wallace, the film is also a self-conscious reprise of one of Mr. Carrey's biggest hits, "Liar Liar" (1997), in which he played an amoral lawyer magically decreed by his son's birthday wish to tell the truth for a full day.
Literally, let them all reign down upon Selena Gomez's new music video for "Bad Liar," in which she plays not one, but four separate characters.
Earlier this year, she hit back, publishing a memoir in which she called him a liar, an impostor and a parasite.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, in which he played the legendary liar to something like perfection, led to much more television work and a string of movies, though none of them notable.
After a strange week in which he called Raptors Coach Butch Carter a liar, then Carter responded by filing a $5 million defamation lawsuit, Camby said he chose not to add fuel to the fire.
Houellebecq also hit the headlines after savage exchanges with his estranged mother Lucie Ceccaldi; he painted a deeply unflattering portrait of her in his novel Plateforme, and she responded by writing a book of her own in which she called him a liar and a parasite.
Tonight's shameful episode, in which you give a pathological liar an opportunity to make his case to a nationwide audience, is the sick but predictable outgrowth of everything you, Fox, and the cable news industry has built.
But it could lead to a legal morass marked by extortion as much as fairness, in which a small cast of liars cashes in on the real suffering of victims.
Bernardo Arévalo Padrón was jailed in November 1997 for comments in which he called Mr. Castro a liar.
