gentle murder paradox

noun

Definitions

  1. A paradox of deontic logic, whereby the plausible statements (i) if you murder, you ought…

    A paradox of deontic logic, whereby the plausible statements (i) if you murder, you ought to murder gently, (ii) you do commit murder, and (iii) to murder gently you must murder imply the less plausible statement (iv) you ought to murder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gentle murder paradox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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