[Charlie]

an arguement?

[Ratty]

Could it be that maybe you're not referring to the next line, but that they are completely irrelevent to eachother, and youve just left out the 'following' and 'previous' sentences?

i dunno, If they are referring to eachother, then as Baseballl said, its a paradox.

[CongressJon]

Hmmm... How about this...

When it says, "The following sentence," it doesn't neccessarily mean the one next to it. However, the previous one is true, because there's a false sentence we can't see.

[Hax the Cook]

Your getting there
You kinda have the right idea, now make it work

[Red Sentinel]

it's simply a untrue sentence

[Traver]

Well it doesn't actually say what we think it says, rather, the letters are made up of tiny letters, that spell out the words "I wub cookies" over and over again, so you see, it has nothing to do with sentences, just cookies.

Hey, you said no restrictions

[Darkness]

When you said 'The following sentence is false' you didn't mean the 'The previous sentence is true one'. You meant the 'Solve this, I'll give you a cookie.' So the following sentence is referring to the cookie sentence, so if we solve it you won't give us a cookie. The previous sentence one is referring to the following sentence one, saying that you really won't give us a cookie. Am I right?

[Traver]

Pfff, if that's right, then that's bogus. If he says "the following", then that can only refer to the FOLLOWING sentence, which is the "the previous sentence blah blah" one.

[Darkness]

Hehe, it's worth a try

[Hax the Cook]

Updateness
I posted teh answer.

[Baseballl]

Like I said, you can't answer a paradox. Your first sentence has to be talking about the second one, not another random sentence in the post. "The following" means the sentence right after it, which makes it a paradox.

[Hax the Cook]

Like I said, you can't answer a paradox. Your first sentence has to be talking about the second one, not another random sentence in the post. "The following" means the sentence right after it, which makes it a paradox.

but the second one is flase (like the first one said), and the false part is the 'the previous sentence' part.

[Neraphym]

Old, but:

The following sentence is false.
The previous sentence is true.

Solve that, I'll send you a cookie.

I think this might be right... actually, it is right, just might not be the answer you're looking for.

2 a : JUDGMENT 2a; specifically : one formally pronounced by a court or judge in a criminal proceeding and specifying the punishment to be inflicted upon the convict b : the punishment so imposed <serve out a sentence>

4 a : a word, clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a syntactic unit which expresses an assertion, a question, a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the performance of an action, that in writing usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic patterns of stress, pitch, and pauses b : a mathematical or logical statement (as an equation or a proposition) in words or symbols

The first use of the word 'sentence' goes by definition number 2; it is a command. The only command following that statement is "Solve that, I'll send you a cookie."

The second use of the word 'sentence' goes by definition number 4. This means that the statment prior to it, the command one, must be false for this one to be true.

I have effectively solved your riddle, and yet you have not, nor can you possibly send me a cookie (you don't know where I live). That being so, I have proved that your 'following sentence' (the command for me to solve this) is false, thus making statement number 1 true. Since statement number 1 is true, then statement number 2 is also true. Everything fits...

*PWNED*




Definitions from: http://www.m-w.com/c...ary?va=sentence