Post by Padre Romero on Sept 4, 2007 14:37:57 GMT -5
You get a few of the common ones a lot: "Is the answer to this question no?", "I'm lying right now?", Any one of zeno's paradoxes...
Here are two less common ones, phrased in UD-zombie type settings...and one about suits...while commonly identified as a paradox, I'm not sure that it is, but it comes up a lot at my business school.
All zombies eat brains (for the sake of argument). It would follow then that all non-brain-eating things are non-zombies. So: When I come upon Kyndrid eating a hamburger, do I become more certain that all zombies eat brains?
(This is commonly called the Raven paradox)
I've been targeted by a PK-er. He's posted on the forum that he'll kill me sometime in the next ten days at server reset, but the given day will be entirely a suprise...only he knows it. I won't know until server reset that I've been shot.
Upon hearing this, I happily realize that I won't be killed.
The Reason being: He can't kill me on day #10...I'd know on day nine that only one day remains...thinking backwards, I can't be killed on day #9, #8, #7...ect...
course, the PKer can convincingly argue that since I'm so sure my death isn't gonna happen, it'll SURE be a suprise when he guns me down on day 3...the real epistemological paradox here is, what is a suprise?
(this is commonly called the hangman paradox)
Ron Burgundy is going out for a night on the town with some classy ladies. He need to rent a sports car, a hotel room, and a suit. A sports car that sells for 50,000 rents for maybe 1% of it's price: 500, an upscale hotel room that would "sell" for 10,000 rents for maybe 1% of it's price, 100 . A suit that would sell for 1,000 dollars rents for 20% of it's price: 200 dollars. Why?
(This is a common economics question, I'm not sure it has a name)
Here are two less common ones, phrased in UD-zombie type settings...and one about suits...while commonly identified as a paradox, I'm not sure that it is, but it comes up a lot at my business school.
All zombies eat brains (for the sake of argument). It would follow then that all non-brain-eating things are non-zombies. So: When I come upon Kyndrid eating a hamburger, do I become more certain that all zombies eat brains?
(This is commonly called the Raven paradox)
I've been targeted by a PK-er. He's posted on the forum that he'll kill me sometime in the next ten days at server reset, but the given day will be entirely a suprise...only he knows it. I won't know until server reset that I've been shot.
Upon hearing this, I happily realize that I won't be killed.
The Reason being: He can't kill me on day #10...I'd know on day nine that only one day remains...thinking backwards, I can't be killed on day #9, #8, #7...ect...
course, the PKer can convincingly argue that since I'm so sure my death isn't gonna happen, it'll SURE be a suprise when he guns me down on day 3...the real epistemological paradox here is, what is a suprise?
(this is commonly called the hangman paradox)
Ron Burgundy is going out for a night on the town with some classy ladies. He need to rent a sports car, a hotel room, and a suit. A sports car that sells for 50,000 rents for maybe 1% of it's price: 500, an upscale hotel room that would "sell" for 10,000 rents for maybe 1% of it's price, 100 . A suit that would sell for 1,000 dollars rents for 20% of it's price: 200 dollars. Why?
(This is a common economics question, I'm not sure it has a name)