A Childs Mind Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Sisyphus Posted April 10, 2009 Posted April 10, 2009 You fail at the original task, and succeed at the task of failing. Next question!
padren Posted April 12, 2009 Posted April 12, 2009 If you try to fail and succeed, I can only imagine you mean "succeed at the attempt of failing" so - you succeeded, if you actually succeeded in what you attempted to fail at, then of course you failed. The only subtly introduced is that your goal was to fail - which implies some form of subterfuge as that's the only reason I can conceive of trying to fail. That is, to give the appearance of trying to succeed while intentionally failing. This is very common in people trying to remain on welfare but are required to attempt to find employment and list places they've tried to get work. Some animals I believe try to fail at simple tasks to give the impression of feigning injury as a hunting tactic, but I am not 100% sure on that.
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