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Three Gods, A B and C, are called, in some order, True False and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B and C by asking three yes-no questions; each
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question must be put to exactly one God. The Gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for 'yes' and 'no' are 'da' and 'ja', in some order. You do not know which word means which.
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and the influence of Russell's paradox on it. At the end, the sentence "The resulting system has since been the subject of intense work" has the tag
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In the article, the 3rd paragraph of the section Work mentions Boolos' work on Frege's
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The following was presented by Boolos in the Harvard Review of Philosophy, 1996.
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