If someone told me that I was going to be hung, I can assure you I would be expecting it every day. I wouldn't bother with any logical analysis.
(The unexpected exam, on the other hand...) On Thursday, 12 September 2013 21:33:24 UTC+12, telmo_menezes wrote: > > Time for some philosophy then :) > > Here's a paradox that's making me lose sleep: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox > > Probably many of you already know about it. > > What mostly bothers me is the epistemological crisis that this > introduces. I cannot find a problem with the reasoning, but it's > clearly false. So I know that I don't know why this reasoning is > false. Now, how can I know if there are other types of reasoning that > I don't even know that I don't know that they are correct? > > Cheers, > Telmo. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
