2015-03-02
Original: 2015-03-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Okay, go ahead and say it.
Man (with glasses): This statement is a lie.
Panel 2:
Man (with glasses): According to this inert analysis, the subject was, in fact, lying.
Panel 3:
Woman: So much for your paradox, philosopher!
Panel 4:
Man (with glasses): That's not the point of the paradox, and you know it.
Panel 5:
Woman: Sorry, no time for non-empirical chit-chat. I need to make a phonecall.
Panel 6:
Woman (on phone): Hi, Barber. Bob shaves all people who do not shave themselves. Do you shave yourself?
Voice on phone: You do?
Panel 7:
Man (with glasses), walking away: I'm going to my office.
Woman: Your whole field is fish in a barrel, dude!
Votey:
Man (with glasses), smiling, in speech bubble: The best thing about always being right is that I get so much time to myself.
Woman: Okay, go ahead and say it.
Man (with glasses): This statement is a lie.
Panel 2:
Man (with glasses): According to this inert analysis, the subject was, in fact, lying.
Panel 3:
Woman: So much for your paradox, philosopher!
Panel 4:
Man (with glasses): That's not the point of the paradox, and you know it.
Panel 5:
Woman: Sorry, no time for non-empirical chit-chat. I need to make a phonecall.
Panel 6:
Woman (on phone): Hi, Barber. Bob shaves all people who do not shave themselves. Do you shave yourself?
Voice on phone: You do?
Panel 7:
Man (with glasses), walking away: I'm going to my office.
Woman: Your whole field is fish in a barrel, dude!
Votey:
Man (with glasses), smiling, in speech bubble: The best thing about always being right is that I get so much time to myself.
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. A woman challenges a bespectacled man (a philosopher) to test logical paradoxes empirically. Panel 1: she says "Okay, go ahead and say it," and he replies, "This statement is a lie." Panel 2: he reports, "According to this inert analysis, the subject was, in fact, lying." Panel 3: she gloats, "So much for your paradox, philosopher!" Panel 4: he objects, "That's not the point of the paradox, and you know it." Panel 5: she brushes him off: "Sorry, no time for non-empirical chit-chat. I need to make a phonecall." Panel 6: on the phone she says, "Hi, Barber. Bob shaves all people who do not shave themselves. Do you shave yourself?" then "You do?" — collapsing the barber paradox empirically too. Panel 7: he walks off saying "I'm going to my office" as she taunts, "Your whole field is fish in a barrel, dude!" Votey: the smiling man alone says, "The best thing about always being right is that I get so much time to myself," implying his insistence on logic leaves him isolated.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.