Before you can decide on what to do, you are eaten by a grue. You die.Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon
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Before you can decide on what to do, you are eaten by a grue. You die.Quote:
Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon
What is this from? Pre-socratic? Citizens of the city? Slaves? What city? Wha?!
It's from a book about dilemmas. The dilemma is that a purely rational person could never make a choice when there's no distinct, rational choice to be made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
I mentioned the pre-socratics because they were very wont to do things like this, at least in my stereotypical, fictional interpretation of them.
Sounds more like one of those questions that only exists to help you clairify things within yourself
Sound of one hand clapping?
Koan are fun. "What is the does your face look like before your mother and father was born?" Fun stuff that makes more sense when you get the whole philosophy behind it, assuming the whole emptiness thing makes any sense to you. Then again, actually fully understanding a koan and having an intellectual understanding are two different thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Vyk
They're stacked...wouldn't you just pick the one on top?
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Originally Posted by Jessweeee♪
That's what a normal person would think.
Personally, I would pick the one in the middle because to me it'd seem to be the "cleanest" of all the bowls. If there wasn't a middle bowl, I'd basically pick one inbetween the top one and the bottom one, if there's only two, then the bottom. xD; But that's just my OCD speaking.
you eat whichever one is closest to you. if they are arranged in a locus around you, you use whichever one you are looking at right now. c'mon peegies, this was easy!
There is always a rational choice. If there isn't one option rationally preferable then the rational choice is to pick whichever since it will not make a difference.
Socrates was such a twat.
I'd just pick any. It's not exactly a dilemma. A plate's a plate.
None of you are rational beings. Disgusting. Anaximenes of Miletus must be doing headspins in his grave.
Anaximenes of Miletus was a sick mothersmurfer. And he was nothing if not irrational. :greenie:
I know xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Rantzien
You could use paper plates and plastic cutlery instead, even though there not great for the environment XD