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Monday, July 18, 2011
Lewis Carrol, Three Statements
What can you conclude from Lewis Carrol's logic puzzle:
(a) All babies are illogical.
(b) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile.
(c) Illogical persons are despised.
If illogical people are despised (c), and babies are illogical (a), then babies are despised. If you are despised, then you cannot manage a crocodile because if you could both manage a croc and be despised, you'd be contradicting (b). Ergo babies can't manage crocs.
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Babies can't manage crocodiles.
ReplyDeleteIf illogical people are despised (c), and babies are illogical (a), then babies are despised. If you are despised, then you cannot manage a crocodile because if you could both manage a croc and be despised, you'd be contradicting (b). Ergo babies can't manage crocs.
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