Schroedinger's Wank

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This page details a Jurisimprudence law.

Originally stated by mirabellawotr here; posted to jurisimprudence here

If an anonymous poster [1] links to a nonexistent journal [2], causing a second anonymous poster [3] to wax wankish on the basis of a hypothetical contigency [4], is the wank inside the box alive or dead, and can you know without opening the box?