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On Thu, 20 Jun 2024, lar3ryca wrote:

On 2024-06-20 16:01, Antonio Marques wrote:

Snidely <[email protected]> wrote:

Thursday, Antonio Marques quipped:

Ruud Harmsen <[email protected]> wrote:

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:18:24 -0700: HenHanna <[email protected]> scribeva:

Kommen drei Logiker in eine Bar. Der Kellner fragt: "Na, was darfs sein,
die Herren? Drei Bier?" Sagt der erste Logiker "Ich weiß nicht", der
zweite auch "Ich weiß nicht" und der Dritte sagt "Ja"

------ is this funny? i don't really get it.

0 | 0 | 1 = 1, in Boolean logic.

Yes, but I still don't get it either.

The first two don't say no, but can't say yes because they don't know
the choice of the other two logicians. The third one has complete knowledge from the other replies.

But for that to work, the first two replies would have to be equivalent to a 'yes', otherwise they express no choice and hence the third guy is not any more informed than the first two.

This one reminds me of one I heard years ago.

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were travelling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.

"Aha," says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."

"Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."

"No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is at least one sheep
in Scotland, and that it is black on at least one side."

a philosopher?: ..., one side of which appears black to us.

--
Helmut Richter

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