Speakpigeon
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We're talking about a real-world sentence...
The court sentenced the criminal to be hanged.
The court also imposed, on humanitarian grounds, as a condition for the execution of the sentence, that which day the hanging takes place had to be unknown in advance to the criminal himself, and this up until the very moment the guards come to take him to be hanged.
Can this real-world sentence be executed.
Please specify if you think this is a paradox.
If not why?
If it is a paradox, how do you propose to solve it?
EB
The court sentenced the criminal to be hanged.
The court also imposed, on humanitarian grounds, as a condition for the execution of the sentence, that which day the hanging takes place had to be unknown in advance to the criminal himself, and this up until the very moment the guards come to take him to be hanged.
Can this real-world sentence be executed.
Please specify if you think this is a paradox.
If not why?
If it is a paradox, how do you propose to solve it?
EB