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grim reaper paradox

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables
grim reaper -para-dox
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A philosophical problem related to Benardete's paradox, but involving countably many Grim Reapers, each of which will kill the person in question at a certain time (if still alive), taking a certain period of time to do it.

Inflected Forms

the Grim Reaper paradox (canonical)

Questions

What does grim reaper paradox mean?
A philosophical problem related to Benardete's paradox, but involving countably many Grim Reapers, each of which will kill the person in question at a certain time (if still alive), taking a certain period of time to do it.

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