The Paradoxical Law1
Neither the Honest Nor Dishonest Traveller Can Be Judged
The law of a certain land is that all who wish to enter the city are asked to state their business there. Those who reply truly are allowed to enter and depart in peace. Those who reply falsely are hanged.
What should happen to the traveller who, when asked his business, replies, "I have come to be hanged"?
Endnotes
1 from R.M. Sainsbury, Paradoxes (2nd ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 145.). ⇑
