Showing posts with label paradox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paradox. Show all posts

Paradox

For your amusement, here is a paradox quoted directly from Martin Gardner's "The Jinn From Hyperspace":"Now for a final paradox. There is a certain event that I guarantee will or will not take place during the next ten minutes. You are absolutely incapable of predicting correctly whether it will or won't occur. I don't mean that it's unlikely you can predict it. I mean it is logically impossible

Thomson's Lamp

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