On 23 January 2014 08:18, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK. A last little exercise in the same vein, for the night. (coming from a > book by Jeffrey): > > Alicia was singing this: > > "Everybody loves my baby. My baby loves nobody but me". > > Can we deduce from this that everybody loves Alicia? >
Surely we can't deduce anything about A and her baby, unless we know that the song is true! :-) But *if* it is... Everybody loves my baby. Therefore my baby loves my baby. But my baby loves nobody but me. Therefore - the only way this can be true - is if Alicia *is*her baby. So the answer is yes! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
