A hypothetical lamp in a philosophicalparadox. The lamp is repeatedly turned on and off by means of a switch; at the end of this time period, regarded as the sum of an infiniteseries of intervals, it seems paradoxically that the lamp cannot be either on or off.
Origin
The idea was devised in 1954 by British philosopher James F. Thomson.
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