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- From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
- Subject: Re: Melinda's paradox
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:04:14 GMT
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- In article <17720@umd5.umd.edu> jns@roissy.umd.edu (J. N. Shaumeyer) writes:
- >So, if I asked ******* what you would say if
- >I asked you whether you had a sense of humor,
- >what would he say? Or should I ask you what
- >he would say if I asked him whether he were
- >a liar?
-
- The way it works is this, for example: if ******* was on
- his was to Guerneville and came to a fork in the road but
- he wasn't sure whether or not the person he was asking for
- directions was homosexual or not, the only way he could be
- sure of taking the correct road would be to ask the person
- what a homosexual would say if asked. Then he'd take the
- other fork, ensuring that he'd arrive in time for, uh,
- tea.
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- Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
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