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> The students convince themselves that it can't happen at all... and that's well and good, but once they admit that as an option, they have to include that in
by ogogmad 2y ago
> The students convince themselves that it can't happen at all... and that's well and good, but once they admit that as an option, they have to include that in their argument—and if they do so, their entire argument falls apart immediate.
Your critical thinking is bad. The first paradox happens when the prisoner concludes that the judge lied, using a rational deduction. A second paradox happens when it transpires the judge told the truth.
- mcphage 2y agoThe prisoner concludes that the judge’s instructions were impossible, which is true. Their conclusion was that there’s an additional possibility: that they don’t get hung at all. Which is also true. Their mistake is believing that this new possibility will come to pass, instead of realizing that the new possibility means that the judge’s instructions aren’t impossible after all. So in the end, the judge was telling the truth, and the prisoner was mistaken, and then dead.