{"id":68019,"date":"2020-05-20T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=68019"},"modified":"2020-05-20T03:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T03:46:29","slug":"coronavirus-meets-the-limits-of-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=68019","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus meets the limits of logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; this one&#8217;s strictly for fun ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>We have my friend the bead game designer <strong>JustKnecht<\/strong> to thank fo passing along this gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr Fauci has solved Bertrand Russell\u2019s famous paradox.<\/p>\n<p>An immunologist who only quarantines people who don\u2019t quarantine themselves, does he quarantine himself?<\/p>\n<p>If he does, he doesn\u2019t. If he doesn\u2019t, he does. See the problem?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Fauci\u2019s original and elegant solution: Partially. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IzfFfMjUf8\">pic.twitter.com\/IzfFfMjUf8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; just knecht (@justknecht) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justknecht\/status\/1262805549181255681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a screen-grab, it has to be &#8212; and it&#8217;s pretty astonishing to find the chyron to a screen-grab referencing <strong>Bertie Russell<\/strong>, let alone <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/russell-paradox\/\">Russell&#8217;s paradox<\/a>. I must have grabbed dozens of chyrons a few months back, when I was looking for game and sports metaphors for warfare &#8212; I never saw anything like this!<\/p>\n<p>Kudos!<\/p>\n<p>BTW, it&#8217;s an <strong>ouroboros <\/strong>paradox too, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; this one&#8217;s strictly for fun ] . We have my friend the bead game designer JustKnecht to thank fo passing along this gem: Dr Fauci has solved Bertrand Russell\u2019s famous paradox. An immunologist who only quarantines people who don\u2019t quarantine themselves, does he quarantine himself? If he does, he doesn\u2019t. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1750,1479,840,218,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-justknecht","category-ouroboros","category-paradox","category-philosophy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68022,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68019\/revisions\/68022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}