In life, people may also claim something which is opposite to what they claim earlier on, like when I asked whether it is true that I am lying. It may not be that obvious but there is contradiction in that statement. This is can be known as a paradox as there cannot be a true or false when either answer contradicts the other option, and without one option, there cannot be the other.
If I make a statement but leave it totally ambiguous as to how that statement is to be taken, e.g., as a statement of belief, as a question, as a line in a play, as a poetic conceit, as a deliberate lie, etc., then I have omitted a statement about the statement. Ordinarily context supplies the content of the statement about the statement, tells us how the statement is to be taken. But if the context does not, the statement may seem to us "off the wall," crazy.
Well people often do not listen closely to what other people say, they don't digest the speaker's words and hence could be at a disadvantage. Without noting what another person is saying, we could be ones holding the shorter end of the stick as we cannot give an accurate comment or answer, as the question can be looked at from many different perspectives. In such a case, if we do not really clarify the question, we might always give the "wrong answer" So listen carefully!
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