Phantom Paradoxes: Language Models Treat Unresolved Circular Truth Dependence as Contradiction

arXiv:2604.12128 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-04-13 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-13

Updated: 2026-10-14

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