Hume's guillotine

Kimmo Huosionmaa

This story is fictional, and the origin is in Victorian England, where in some school has been targeted for burglaries. In this story for the thief is made the trap, what would uncover the reason for the crimes, and of course, who was made those burglaries. I don't know if this story true or false, but I will tell it to you now. And I hope that you enjoy it. Do you know the term "Hume's guillotine"? The term is made by the test, what philosopher name Hume invented when he was tried to figure, who his students would tell the things, what they should not tell to other people. He told the story about the guillotine, what is an execution equipment, what is hanging on the top of the particular door in some building.

The idea is that the tester told different door for every single student, who was alone with him. The guillotine was not allowed to mention the outsiders, but of course, the students were allowed to tell that thing together, of course, the attractive thing behind every door, and the thing was safe behind it, what was filled with money. The idea was to test how loyal those students were to their teacher, or did they loyal for their mates, and share the secret with all the group members?

Or did they tell that thing only for their best friends? Or did they just "forget" to tell that above one of the doors is deadly guillotine to anybody? The idea of the test is, that if some person or persons would hesitate to step in some room, would that mean, that the person has kept the story of the guillotine in the own mind. But if in the front of some door would happen, that many people should not want to go inside the room, would that tell, that who would tell the secret to outsiders.

There is one problem with this kind of tests, the tester must know what are the students or gangsters behind the burglaries. So in the story, most of the safes are filled with cash, but in some safes were the test answers, and some of them were the sin lists of the teachers. The thing what would uncover the burglary was what safe would be broken. Every single safe was filled with one thing, and that would make easy to notice, who was the thief, and what could be the motive for that?

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