Lawyer paradox (5TH CENTURY BC).
Ascribed to the sophist philosopher Protagoras (c.490-420 BC).
A lawyer teaches law to a student without fee on condition that the student will pay him when he qualifies and wins his first case.
However, when the student qualifies he takes up another profession. The lawyer sues him for his fees, on the grounds that if he wins, he is paid and if he loses, the student has won and so must pay by the agreement.
The student is unperturbed because if he wins he need not pay the fees, and if he loses he does not owe them. There is some confusion concerning the agreement here, but logical rules preventing the application of a condition to itself certainly resolve the paradox.
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 The Asian American Achievement Paradox
- 2.2 The Woman in Black
- 2.3 The Navigators: a time-travel adventure
- 2.4 The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice
- 2.5 True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World
- 2.6 The Good Lawyer Bad Lawyer Paradox and Other Paradoxes of Bureaucratic Bloat
- 2.7 Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
- 2.8 Roman J. Israel, Esq.
- 2.9 The Part-Time Paradox
- 2.10 Chronological Order
Videos
The Asian American Achievement Paradox
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Lee, Jennifer (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 296 Pages - 06/30/2015 (Publication Date) - Russell Sage Foundation (Publisher)
The Woman in Black
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Daniel Radcliffe, Lu Corfield, Janet McTeer (Actors)
- James Watkins (Director) - Richard Jackson (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice
- English (Publication Language)
- 336 Pages - 02/21/2011 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World
- Skeel, David (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 176 Pages - 08/28/2014 (Publication Date) - IVP Books (Publisher)
The Good Lawyer Bad Lawyer Paradox and Other Paradoxes of Bureaucratic Bloat
- Audible Audiobook
- C. C. Roberts (Author) - C. C. Roberts (Narrator)
- English (Publication Language)
- 12/10/2018 (Publication Date) - C. C. Roberts (Publisher)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 720 Pages - 01/30/2003 (Publication Date) - Penguin (Publisher)
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo (Actors)
- Dan Gilroy (Director) - Jennifer Fox (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
- Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
The Part-Time Paradox
- Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 176 Pages - 12/11/1998 (Publication Date) - Routledge (Publisher)
Chronological Order
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Brett Jacobsen, Vic Stagliano, Rick Seguso (Actors)
- Cris Silvent (Director) - Cris Silvent (Writer) - Michael Seminerio (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
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