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The Judge’s Conundrum

Posted in Science & Math by Greg Ross on September 22nd, 2008

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In the desert, a bandit shoots a sheriff. The wounded sheriff rides into town, where the outraged townspeople form a mob. They track the bandit to his desert hideout and hang him. The sheriff dies a few days later.

Now: Did the bandit kill the sheriff? If so … when and where?

(From City University philosophy lecturer Peter Cave.)