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Which is better, a clock that is right only once a year, or a clock that is right twice every day?
The latter," you reply, unquestionably.Very good, now attend.
I have two clocks: one doesn't go at all, and the other loses a minute a day: which would you prefer?
The losing one", you answer, "without a doubt."
Now observe: the one which loses a minute a day has to lose twelve hours, or seven hundred and twenty minutes before it is right again, consequently it is right once in two years, whereas the other is evidently right as often as the time it points to comes round, which happens twice a day.
So you've contradicted yourself.