Crocodile dilemma

Crocodile circuit is a classic dialectical paradox of antiquity, which refers to a fictional conversation between a crocodile and a mother. The crocodile has robbed the mother of the child. After the mother to return the child to her the invitation promises her the crocodile, her then and only then play back the child when the mother guesses correctly, what will it do with the child.

The mother shall remain subject to the same fishing circuit.

If she answers, namely, the crocodile will return her child, it is according to the logic of the proposal you made ​​with the utmost security lose their child because the crocodile yes as predators of the child 's interest, to keep the child.

If she answers, however, that the crocodile according to this his subordinate interest you did not return the child, it brings with it the crocodile in argument coercion. If the crocodile keeps the child for himself, so it is against his own word. The crocodile can answer that it does not feel bound by his word, as the mother has even excluded by their response, the logical possibility of the return so just yet. The mother can therefore reclaim only according to contract further their child.