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Unfinished Business

April 5, 2022From the book Math Games with Bad Drawings

A ghost's unfinished business is to make sure its unfinished business is never finished. A self-referential haunting.

Transcript

Person (to a ghost): "What is your unfinished business? Is it to teach analytic philosophers the severe limitations of abstract logic?" Ghost: "No, it's to ensure that my unfinished business is never finished. So far, so good…"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-unfinished-business/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Logic & Proof › Self-ReferenceLogic & Proof › Paradoxes
Level
High SchoolCollege
Themes
Self-ReferenceLiterature & Myth