by Mittenpunkt » Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:07 pm
Not to mention the rules would need to be set up as a biconditional. There's no clause against hand-raising your hand in response to any question, so it's still paradox free.
Along with the past tense you could view the rules as having a hand-raising period of time where anything done then would still qualifying. So at instant 1 your hand is not raised in response to the question, then at instant 2 the statement is now true for you so you then must raise your hand and your hand can stay raised for the remainder of the turn since you had kept your hand down at instant one. If, instead, the moment of raising is instantaneous and no changes to the players' status can be made during the turn, then it's still past tense and won't apply. So, either way, no paradox there.
So that's, what, four ways the trick doesn't work. Just raise your hand and you'll be fine.
Also, does "this question" refer to the specific sentence being said, or only that instance of the sentence? Because player's could potentially have heard the question before.
Not to mention the rules would need to be set up as a biconditional. There's no clause against hand-raising your hand in response to any question, so it's still paradox free.
Along with the past tense you could view the rules as having a hand-raising period of time where anything done then would still qualifying. So at instant 1 your hand is not raised in response to the question, then at instant 2 the statement is now true for you so you then must raise your hand and your hand can stay raised for the remainder of the turn since you had kept your hand down at instant one. If, instead, the moment of raising is instantaneous and no changes to the players' status can be made during the turn, then it's still past tense and won't apply. So, either way, no paradox there.
So that's, what, four ways the trick doesn't work. Just raise your hand and you'll be fine.
Also, does "this question" refer to the specific sentence being said, or only that instance of the sentence? Because player's could potentially have heard the question before.