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No, it is not ambiguity of language.

This is a big call to make, seeing as English is not your native language. As a native English speaker, I find it very ambiguous as to which set of probabilities I should be counting.



I meant that the paradoxical nature is not resolved by simply formalizing the statement into first order logic the following way:

"I have 2 children. Exists child where (Born_on_tuesday(child) and Boy(child))."

(Some other paradoxes completely disappear when you try to write the statement into first order logic. It is not the case here.)

This is what I wanted to say.


You see, the problem is that even your latest attempt to describe the question is ambiguous - the solution depends on how 'I' was selected. And if ever you describe that in a non-ambiguous manner, I suspect that the answer would no longer seem paradoxial. In other words, ambiguity in language is at the very heart of this problem.




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