white pill
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A philosophical dilemma in which someone who faces death or disability at a certain probability is offered a perfect antidote if they pay a specified amount of money.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, pill.
Example Sentences
- "Now that we have both the black pill and white pill results before us, we are in a position to make a few general observations."
- "We can also think of selling risks of being disabled. Suppose that a person facing a risk p of being disabled to level f could avoid that risk for a payment x. How much should he pay? We call this the disability white pill question and diagram it as shown in Figure 6."
- "Howard [1984] bases his analysis on a "black pill” and a "white pill.""
- "While most people find the formulation of the white pill problem to be perfectly acceptable, many find the black pill problem to be very objectionable."