What is the Answer?

JohnnyGreenfingers

JohnnyGreenfingers

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CinnamonGirl said:
oh. . .dear. . .I've annoyed the bear. . .okay, I'm lazy to write it myself--the following is poached from wikipedia:

One important aspect of Kuhn's paradigms is that the paradigms are incommensurable, meaning two paradigms cannot be reconciled with each other because they cannot be subjected to the same common standard of comparison. That is, no meaningful comparison between them is possible without fundamental modification of the concepts that are an intrinsic part of the paradigms being compared.


therefore there has to be an answer when there is no answer is incommesurable--and btw the argument can be made that 50% is also correct since it is the halfway point between 100% and 0%--a toss of the coin-- i dunno it's a mindfuck :)
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No I think you nailed it. After I posted the first time I went to stir my sauce and it occurred to me that I read it too fast, 50% was the obvious trap for skimming too quickly and answering without thinking, and that the answer was zero. Then I thought it could also be 100% as well. Then I just said I'm stupid because it made my brain wobble. I could blame it on the thunderfuck, but that would be douchey. =)


Edit: but where did the first chicken come from? And the second to make the first egg? Was that incest?
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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JohnnyGreenfingers said:
No I think you nailed it. After I posted the first time I went to stir my sauce and it occurred to me that I read it too fast, 50% was the obvious trap for skimming too quickly and answering without thinking, and that the answer was zero. Then I thought it could also be 100% as well. Then I just said I'm stupid because it made my brain wobble. I could blame it on the thunderfuck, but that would be douchey. =)


Edit: but where did the first chicken come from? And the second to make the first egg. Was that incest?
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But that was not one of the supplied options. I cannot imagine supplying entirely incorrect options as an act of misdirection. Aside from that being just plain morally wrong, the only answer possible becomes Question Disqualified. Jmo. cn
 
CinnamonGirl

CinnamonGirl

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JohnnyGreenfingers said:
No I think you nailed it. After I posted the first time I went to stir my sauce and it occurred to me that I read it too fast, 50% was the obvious trap for skimming too quickly and answering without thinking, and that the answer was zero. Then I thought it could also be 100% as well. Then I just said I'm stupid because it made my brain wobble. I could blame it on the thunderfuck, but that would be douchey. =)


Edit: but where did the first chicken come from? And the second to make the first egg? Was that incest?
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The first chicken came from Kentucky which make the answer to the second question obvious. (damn, I wish I had some thunderfuck!)
 
JohnnyGreenfingers

JohnnyGreenfingers

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It's the 'this question' part that makes it 0% or 100% to me. The obvious is that there are four choices, and if you pick randomly from 4 choices to answer any question you would be right 25% of the time. 25% listed twice doubles that. But the reason I knew I was wrong was because:
"Alright fellow stoners, my FB friends haven't came up with an answer to this puzzle, so I call upon you."
Is problem...
 
CinnamonGirl

CinnamonGirl

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cannabineer said:
But that was not one of the supplied options. I cannot imagine supplying entirely incorrect options as an act of misdirection. Aside from that being just plain morally wrong, the only answer possible becomes Question Disqualified. Jmo. cn
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I am genuinely surprised that you would be such an "in-the-box" type of thinker. I mean, even from a grammatical point of view: IF you were to answer "this" question" is a conditional statement and therefore the rest of the question it with the ABCD choices is just decoration a distraction bait and swich--blah blah-- (don't go too hard on me bear, I'm pretty loaded--per usual lol)
 
JohnnyGreenfingers

JohnnyGreenfingers

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Plus, it was posted as a riddle across at least two websites so that's a good clue there is a monkey in the woodpile here. Not an inside the box kind of thing.

Edit: tomfoolery. shenanigans.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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I have a whiff of the autistic about me. Most riddles rely on a sort of bait'n'switch, like the one in the OP. To me, that is advancing cleverness at the cost of doing harm to elegance. I realize that this attitude is personal and subjective, but it informs a cornerstone of my concept of beauty/elegance in thought. I value elegance ahead of cleverness qua cleverness. cn
 
JohnnyGreenfingers

JohnnyGreenfingers

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cannabineer said:
I have a whiff of the autistic about me. Most riddles rely on a sort of bait'n'switch, like the one in the OP. To me, that is advancing cleverness at the cost of doing harm to elegance. I realize that this attitude is personal and subjective, but it informs a cornerstone of my concept of beauty/elegance in thought. I value elegance ahead of cleverness qua cleverness. cn
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Agreed. But clearly, sir, a monkey is in the woodpile. And your elegance leaves no room for my monkey. That is all.
 
CinnamonGirl

CinnamonGirl

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cannabineer said:
I have a whiff of the autistic about me. Most riddles rely on a sort of bait'n'switch, like the one in the OP. To me, that is advancing cleverness at the cost of doing harm to elegance. I realize that this attitude is personal and subjective, but it informs a cornerstone of my concept of beauty/elegance in thought. I value elegance ahead of cleverness qua cleverness. cn
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now you're just being snotty :P *wink*
 
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