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Everybody talking about surprise should read the “Logical school” section, in particular this reformulation:

> The prisoner will be hanged next week and its date will not be deducible the night before using this statement as an axiom.

This paradox isn’t a play on the definition of “surprise”, that’s just a weakness accidentally introduced by lax wording.



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