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A dilemma story (also dilemma tale) is an African story-form intended to provoke discussion. They are used as a form of both entertainment and instruction. [ 1 ] Unlike many other story forms, which culminate in a firm conclusion, dilemma stories are open ended, and meant to spark conversation and debate.
The Rare Earth hypothesis uses the Goldilocks principle in the argument that a planet must be neither too far away from nor too close to a star and galactic centre to support life, while either extreme would result in a planet incapable of supporting life. [6] Such a planet is colloquially called a "Goldilocks Planet".
Popular literature often misrepresents Zeno's arguments. For example, Zeno is often said to have argued that the sum of an infinite number of terms must itself be infinite–with the result that not only the time, but also the distance to be travelled, become infinite. [ 9 ]
Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy.It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development ...
The 2022 fantasy novel The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik features a dilemma similar to the one presented in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." [ 24 ] Isabel J. Kim 's short story "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole", published in Clarkesworld Magazine in February 2024, is set after the events of Le Guin's story. [ 25 ]
Parke used the title Off on a Comet, and since that time the book has usually been referred to with that title instead of the correct one, Hector Servadac. In 1926, the first two issues of Amazing Stories carried Off on a Comet in two parts. [6] In 1959, Classics Illustrated released Off on a Comet as a graphic novel (issue #149). [citation needed]
A dilemma (from Ancient Greek δίλημμα (dílēmma) 'double proposition') is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The possibilities are termed the horns of the dilemma, a clichéd usage, but distinguishing the dilemma from other kinds of predicament as a matter of usage.
There is an apocryphal tale told that when Stowe met Abraham Lincoln in Washington in November 1862, [23] the president greeted her by saying, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." [24] Mark Twain's work Huckleberry Finn (1884) is another early American social protest novel.