A variant of Benardete's paradox
In this paper I will present a variant of Benardete's paradox of the gods. What makes this variant interesting is that in it certain assumptions implicit in Benardete's original formulation are replaced by others which are more realistic, more in keeping with our experience of the physical world, and yet the result is an even more disturbing paradox. Benardete introduces the paradox of the gods as follows: