Why the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever Cannot Be Solved in Less than Three Questions

Journal of Philosophical Logic 41 (2):493-503 (2012)
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Rabern and Rabern (Analysis 68:105–112 2 ) and Uzquiano (Analysis 70:39–44 4 ) have each presented increasingly harder versions of ‘the hardest logic puzzle ever’ (Boolos The Harvard Review of Philosophy 6:62–65 1 ), and each has provided a two-question solution to his predecessor’s puzzle. But Uzquiano’s puzzle is different from the original and different from Rabern and Rabern’s in at least one important respect: it cannot be solved in less than three questions. In this paper we solve Uzquiano’s puzzle in three questions and show why there is no solution in two. Finally, to cement a tradition, we introduce a puzzle of our own

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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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