gwern comments on Hyakujo's Fox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 25 March 2009 03:37:32PM 3 points [-]

Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"

Comment author: Pavitra 05 July 2011 06:11:22AM 2 points [-]

I vastly prefer this one, which actually provides an answer to the question ("I refute it thus"):

Hyakujo wished to send a monk to open a new monastery. He told his pupils that whoever answered a question most ably would be appointed. Placing a water vase on the ground, he asked: "Who can say what this is without calling its name?"

The chief monk said: "No one can call it a wooden shoe."

Isan, the cooking monk, tipped over the vase with his shoe and went out.

Hyakujo smiled and said: "The chief monk loses." And Isan became the master of the new monastery.

Comment author: gwern 05 July 2011 02:22:28PM 0 points [-]

If Pavitra had been there, he could have saved the cat.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 April 2009 03:01:42PM 5 points [-]

I say:

"Of this which is unique and unknown, the short staff predicate is true."

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