A simple solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever

Analysis 68 (2):105-112 (2008)
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Abstract

We present the simplest solution ever to 'the hardest logic puzzle ever'. We then modify the puzzle to make it even harder and give a simple solution to the modified puzzle. The final sections investigate exploding god-heads and a two-question solution to the original puzzle.

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Foundations of Illocutionary Logic.John Rogers Searle & Daniel Vanderveken - 1985 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Foundations of Illocutionary Logic.Jerrold M. Sadock - 1989 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 54 (1):300-302.
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever.George Boolos - 1996 - The Harvard Review of Philosophy 6 (1):62-65.

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