Re: logic question

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From: Babylonian
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:10

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WARREN GREENWALD wrote:
> An instructor teaches a class five days a week, Monday through Friday. He
> tells
> his class that he will give one more quiz on one day during the final week
> of classes, but that the students will not know for sure the quiz will be
> that day
> until they come to the classroom. What is the last day of the week he can
> give
> the quiz to satisify these conditions?

Try this:
Since the instructor has decieved the students into thinking the test
cannot be given on Friday, they won't know it will be given on Friday
until they come to the classroom. A falsehood cannot be a truth, but a
lie can.
The weak form of the liar, "I am lying", can be resolved as a truth
because the speaker is trying to decieve us into thinking his statement
is false.

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