Re: An interesting paradox for you.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> >I would certainly be capable of formulating it! (And even if I weren't 
> >clever enough, it's been formulated for me.) I think I would never 
> >follow it. When the time came actually to volunteer for the flogging, I 
> >would have no reason whatsoever to do it, and I'm certain that I would 
> >not do it with no reason. Since I would know this in advance, I don't 
> >see how I could form the intention to do it.
> 
> You just contradicted yourself. 
> This sentence:
> >When the time came actually to volunteer for the flogging, I 
> >would have no reason whatsoever to do it
> is immediately contradicted by this one:
> >Since I would know this in advance, I don't 
> >see how I could form the intention to do it.
> 
> You only have to look ahead *one sentence* to see that the fact that you 
> can't
> form an intention and therefore can't claim the money without getting 
> flogged,
> is sufficient reason to volunteer for the flogging.


I'm not sure I follow you. It isn't true that I cannot form an intention 
without getting flogged. What is true (I think, and anyway am now 
claiming) is that I cannot form the intention to volunteer if I know 
that when the time comes I will not volunteer. I'll assume that's what 
you meant.

At 7:30, it is time to volunteer for a flogging. I am wondering whether 
I have a reason to volunteer for it. There are two cases.

Case One: I have the money.

Case Two: I do not have the money.

In Case One, are you suggesting that my reason for volunteering is that 
if I do not, I cannot get the money? Or that my reason for volunteering 
is that if I do not, I will make it impossible for me to have formed the 
intention hours ago? But those certainly *seem* false. And likewise in 
Case Two.
Maybe there's a trick.

-Jamie