“Sam walks by Big Ben at three o’clock, looks up at its face, and thinks, ‘It is now three o’clock’. However, unbeknownst to Sam, Big Ben malfunctioned and stopped precisely twelve hours ago.” So maybe Sam just got lucky? But what would have happened if he’d passed by at 12:55? Such happenstances are examined in […]
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Anti-Luck
“On my way down to the elevator I release a trash bag down the chute from my high rise condo. Presumably, I know my bag will soon be in the basement. But what if, having been released, it still (incredibly) were not to arrive there? That presumably would be because it had been snagged somehow […]