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:(ii) As the number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero. | :(ii) As the number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero. | ||
:(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be. <br> | :(iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be. <br> | ||
This is true of any meeting containing more than one person. (A single-person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind, count, at least since {{otto}} asserted through his maxim “[[convenimus ergo es]]”) | This is true of any meeting containing more than one person. (A single-person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind, count, at least since {{otto}} asserted its incoherence through his maxim “[[convenimus ergo es]]”). | ||
As a consequence of these axioms there is thus a lower ''and'' an upper bound on the number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration. <br> | As a consequence of these axioms there is thus a lower ''and'' an upper bound on the number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration. They, when allied to {{buchstein}}’s maxim lead one to the paradox that, to be meaningful, a meeting must have more than one, but fewer than two, people. There is a school of [[catholic]] thought that this is absolutely ''not'' a paradox, but is rather a profound truth about the universe.<br> | ||
Revision as of 09:50, 2 September 2023
The JC’s first law of worker entropy (also known as the “meeting paradox”):
- (i) The probability of a meeting starting on time can never be 100%;
- (ii) As the number of scheduled participants increases, that probability tends to zero.
- (iii) The more participants there are the more retarded the starting time (and content) of the meeting will be.
This is true of any meeting containing more than one person. (A single-person meeting, of course, ought not, in a sensible mind, count, at least since Otto Büchstein asserted its incoherence through his maxim “convenimus ergo es”).
As a consequence of these axioms there is thus a lower and an upper bound on the number of people possible in a viable meeting of a given duration. They, when allied to Büchstein’s maxim lead one to the paradox that, to be meaningful, a meeting must have more than one, but fewer than two, people. There is a school of catholic thought that this is absolutely not a paradox, but is rather a profound truth about the universe.