[oskarth]

The Wikipedia page is worth reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achi...

Particularly this quote:

The Wittgensteinian philosopher Peter Winch discussed the paradox in The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (1958), where he argued that the paradox showed that "the actual process of drawing an inference, which is after all at the heart of logic, is something which cannot be represented as a logical formula ... Learning to infer is not just a matter of being taught about explicit logical relations between propositions; it is learning to do something" (p. 57). Winch goes on to suggest that the moral of the dialogue is a particular case of a general lesson, to the effect that the proper application of rules governing a form of human activity cannot itself be summed up with a set of further rules, and so that "a form of human activity can never be summed up in a set of explicit precepts" (p. 53).

[barsonme]

Being led down the rabbit hole is one of the reasons why I love Wikipedia.

I had searched 'What the Tortoise Said to Achilles' on Google, and ended up reading about the arrow paradox's rebuttals, which were really interesting.

But more to the point of the original article, it shows that there are definitely gray areas within morality, and it's impossible to use boolean logic to try to categorize humans.