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Logical Lo: Hanging Around
Peter Cave has a new book just out, of philosophical puzzles old and new. Here, Peter tells the tale of Logical Lo and her reasoning.
Imagine is a wonderful Silly Offer: You’ll win a million pounds for doing something utterly silly. Perhaps you decide to go silly-walking in public, pink bananas on your head, clapping your ears, while singing hymns backwards. You claim the prize. But the provider insists that your behaviour was not utterly silly. It was designed to secure the million that you reasonably enough wanted; that wasn’t silly.
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