2011-02-07

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2011-02-07

Title text: 2011-02-07

Votey

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It's called "the paradox of the court"

In athens, protagoras made a deal with euathlus.

Tell you what - I'll teach you how to speak in court and you don't have to pay me till you win your first case.

Great!

But later, euathlus didn't bother to seek any cases.

Hey! Get to work !

Sorry, I was checking out this depiction of naked wrestlers on the side of an urn.

So, protagoras sued euathlus for his payment.

If I win, the court says you pay me. If I lose, our deal says you pay me.

But euathlus countered.

Not so. If I win, the court says I don't pay. If I lose, you failed to teach me, so I don't pay.

The argument was elliptically beautiful.

But if you win the first case, then there is new information, soi can sue a second

Time.

But, if you win the second case, it invalidates the first. So you see-

Later, athens somehow lost the peloponnesian war

But, did you kill me or did the spear? Or society? Or nature herself?

I'm gonna kill your children and take your wife.

Fascinating.

Votey Transcript

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Oh wait. It's the spear for sure.

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