a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (or donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water.
I already know the answer to this. The ass starves AND thirsts to death.
How do I know this?
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Why not thirst to death?
you had me at “…to death”