Interesting Logic Problem

[doublediamond223]

Well, if we want to play with LOGIC problems, how about some symbolic logic?

(> means horseshoe, can't find the font)

1. A≡W
2. ~A v ~W
3. R > A / ~(W v R)


Prove the conclusion using the 18 rules of inference.

Come on, no one?

[BeanDip4All]

Damn, what a thread; this rich manichaeistic discourse is so much more satisfying than any $350 sushi dinner! How often is it that I am propositioned to carry someone's lovechild in one breath and then subjected to a scathing ad homonym attack in the next?

Crud, a few notes: I don't know how you could miss it, but my question to you was obviously kidding, sorry you're not conversant with my pesky plebeian humor.

You're right, I am a Frightening Hell Spawn of too many analytics classes, yet I doubt many people get their MBAs for the "rigorous intellectual dissection," we all know the emperor has no clothes - it is just an expensive job placement service. Myself, I'm just in it to learn how to write algorithms computing the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Best of luck in your own quixotic quest for knowledge!
TLuv

[davep]

Crud, a few notes: I don't know how you could miss it, but my question to you was obviously kidding, sorry you're not conversant with my pesky plebeian humor.

You're right, I am a Frightening Hell Spawn of too many analytics classes, yet I doubt many people get their MBAs for the "rigorous intellectual dissection," we all know the emperor has no clothes - it is just an expensive job placement service. Myself, I'm just in it to learn how to write algorithms computing the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Best of luck in your own quixotic quest for knowledge!
TLuv

Aw c'mon, the high road?? Disappointing.

[MeatPuppet]

Myself, I'm just in it to learn how to write algorithms computing the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Is that an African swallow?

[Viva]

Best of luck in your own quixotic quest for knowledge!

Actually, he's just hoping to get laid some day.

[Woodsy]

Maybe you can get out of jail free on the excuse that you're a poor, dumb and rather gullible college student?

S,
I hope you are coming strong with your maybe as this young lady is none of those things.
I know you love your mental gymnastics on the intraweb, but here you are out of your league.

[Tippster]

I heart chix who use the word "Swallow."

[Roo]

The Doctor is allowed to speak once (let's say at midnight), on one day in all their countless years stuck on the island. When he does this, he says the following:

"Blue eyes = no airflow over the wing = you do not take off."

I see where this goes.

[smitchell333]

Damn, what a thread; this rich manichaeistic discourse is so much more satisfying than any $350 sushi dinner! How often is it that I am propositioned to carry someone's lovechild in one breath and then subjected to a scathing ad homonym attack in the next?

Crud, a few notes: I don't know how you could miss it, but my question to you was obviously kidding, sorry you're not conversant with my pesky plebeian humor.

You're right, I am a Frightening Hell Spawn of too many analytics classes, yet I doubt many people get their MBAs for the "rigorous intellectual dissection," we all know the emperor has no clothes - it is just an expensive job placement service. Myself, I'm just in it to learn how to write algorithms computing the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Best of luck in your own quixotic quest for knowledge!
TLuv

Glad we could be entertaining.

Let us know what the Prof says the official answer is - I feeling he has a trick up his sleeve, or in his pants.

[Franz Klammer]

Well, not to thrash an obviously mangled and rotting corpse, but if you're studying "econometrics," I feel sorry for you. First, because you're paying to study bullshit. Second, because based on your question you're obviously taking it rather seriously even though it's patent bullshit. And third, because "econometrics" is a pretentious fucking name.

But if you found the original question not only logically and coherently worded, but also difficult, that would maybe explain your sincere and serious study of "econometrics." Maybe.

Or maybe it's a sad requisite on the way to receiving your degree in some other bogus field like "business" or "economics" or "statistics"? Sorry, but to me the dearth of rigorous intellectual dissection of academic subjects is a laughingstock and a rather embarrassing feature of post-secondary education.

Sorry, but that's how I see it. Maybe you can get out of jail free on the excuse that you're a poor, dumb and rather gullible college student?

I want to see how Nash, Aumann, Selten, Harsanyi, von Neumann et al react to you calling "economics" a bogus field ...

Also, for anyone who knows how to construct an inductive proof and knows about the difference between common and first-order knowledge, the problem is very simple. The only slightly complicating thing is the additional superfluous wording in the question.

[Sir Jongalot]

Holy Shit!!

No one else thought of this:

What if one of the blue eyed is colorblind? According to this approx 1 in 76 or 1.30% of people are color blind.
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/c/colo...prevalence.htm

Its all fucked up then, right cause they cant count eyes.

Or what if some of them are fucking crazy. Looks like there is a high incidence of mental illness. Shit those people cant be counted on.

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/m/ment...prevalence.htm


Or what if you had blue eyes but wanted to make sweet love with that hottie mathematician with the brown eyes - you wouldn't leave that island for nothing.

[Dexter Rutecki]

The problem I have with this is the use of the word 'interesting' in conjunction with this problem.