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==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :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.
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