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Comment author: thomblake 28 January 2010 02:07:09PM 0 points [-]

NB: "The trolley problem" does not uniquely describe a problem. While it does refer to Foot's version from 1978, it also refers to any of the class of "trolley problems", hundreds of which have been in published papers since then.

Much like "Gettier case" does not uniquely identify one thought experiment.