A simple solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever

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Analysis 68 (2):105-112 (2008)
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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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10.1111/j.1467-8284.2007.00723.x

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Foundations of Illocutionary Logic.John Rogers Searle & Daniel Vanderveken - 1985 - Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever.George Boolos - 1996 - The Harvard Review of Philosophy 6 (1):62-65.
Some thoughts about the hardest logic puzzle ever.Tim S. Roberts - 2001 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 30 (6):609-612.

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