Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to third edition
- Introduction
- 1 Zeno's paradoxes: space, time, and motion
- 2 Moral paradoxes
- 3 Vagueness: the paradox of the heap
- 4 Acting rationally
- 5 Believing rationally
- 6 Classes and truth
- 7 Are any contradictions acceptable?
- Appendix I Some more paradoxes
- Appendix II Remarks on some text questions and appended paradoxes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix I - Some more paradoxes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to third edition
- Introduction
- 1 Zeno's paradoxes: space, time, and motion
- 2 Moral paradoxes
- 3 Vagueness: the paradox of the heap
- 4 Acting rationally
- 5 Believing rationally
- 6 Classes and truth
- 7 Are any contradictions acceptable?
- Appendix I Some more paradoxes
- Appendix II Remarks on some text questions and appended paradoxes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
(An asterisk before a title indicates that there is an observation on the entry in Appendix II.)
THE GALLOWS
The law of a certain land is that all who wish to enter the city are asked to state their business there. Those who reply truly are allowed to enter and depart in peace. Those who reply falsely are hanged. What should happen to the traveler who, when asked his business, replies, “I have come to be hanged”?
٭BURIDAN'S EIGHTH SOPHISM
Socrates in Troy says, “What Plato is now saying in Athens is false.” At the same time, Plato in Athens says, “What Socrates is now saying in Troy is false.” (Cf. Buridan, in Hughes 1982, pp. 73–9).
THE LAWYER
Protagoras, teacher of lawyers, has this contract with pupils: “Pay me a fee if and only if you win your first case.” One of his pupils, Euathlus, sues him for free tuition, arguing as follows: “If I win the case, then I win free tuition, as that is what I am suing for. If I lose, then my tuition is free anyway, since this is my first case.”
Protagoras, in court, responds as follows: “If you give judgment for Euathlus, then he will owe me a fee, since it is his first case and that was our agreement; if you give judgment for me, then he will owe me a fee, since that is the content of the judgment.
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- Paradoxes , pp. 160 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009