Consider the following two statements: "I am thinking about a tree that no one is thinking of" and "I am thinking that there's a tree that nobody is thinking of."
A) The second is self contradictory but the first is not.
B) The first is self contradictory but the second is not.
C) Neither is self contradictory.
D) Both are self contradictory because they mean the same thing.

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The first statement is self-contradictory because if you are thinking about a tree, then it cannot be true that no one is thinking of it. The second statement is not self-contradictory because it is possible to think that there exists a tree that nobody is currently thinking of.

Consider the Following Two Statements: "I Am Thinking About a Tree