Posted on 12/07/2004 2:22:10 PM PST by mft112345
Crocodile and the Baby Paradox
A crocodile swipes a baby, but he tells the mother he will return it if the mother is able to correctly answer a single question: "Am I going to return your baby?" The mother says, "No, you will not."
How can her answer be correct, though? If he returns the baby because her prediction was accurate, then her prediction wasn't accurate after all, and by the set up of the problem, he must keep the baby. If he keeps the baby because her prediction was inaccurate, then her prediction was correct and he must return the baby.
The easiest answer is the croc keeps the baby. The mother was deluded to think a croc could speak and be incapable of lying. But, that's cheating. The problem requires us to assume this speaking croc is bound to his word.
Credit the stoics for devising unsolvable problems involving baby deaths.
Credit Roe for giving us limitless abortion on demand with no end in sight.
You're far less likely to be attacked by a crocodile if you Roe instead of Wade....
not much problem here, as i see it: mother has nothing to lose by answering "yes you will return my baby." if he wouldn't return it even though her answer is no (he's lying) it doesn't matter what she says. If he's not lying and she answers "no", it doesn't matter either. her only answer is "yes". it sucks that a crocodile has her baby, but this is far from some kind of brain-teaser.
LOL. Stupid talking croc ; )
The dead baby jokes have now morphed into a babies-are-foodstuffs picture for the illiterate. Check out the Caucasian baby or Ethnic baby PDF files at the lower right, tell me THIS isn't subliminal....
http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/women_infants_children/
True.
Idon't know whether your typo was deliberate, but it's 'Cretans', of course.
Or she only eats part of it, and makes a fine pair of boots from the hide.
YOu're a riot a real riot.
I knew it was one or the other. Spell check didn't help.
this better not make me sick...
I don't know if it's subliminal but it's pretty distasteful.
I taught my sons at a very young age not to be afraid when they were in the woods at night because humans are the worst monsters of all.
Good advice LOL. Animals do what they do on instinct, and most animals (though not all) tend to shy away from humans. Humans, on the other hand, do what they do...
Thanks for the laugh.
Ladies and Gentlemen.... we have our winner!....
I thought maybe you were making a statement about Greeks.
What happens if the croc eats the baby and then waits around a while to poop out the remains?
The croc never said anything about how it would return the baby.
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