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Re:A Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are by ikeboy on Friday May 22, 2015 @05:08PM (#9590906)
No. I don't make any assumptions as to anything I can't see.

However, regardless of what's on the back of blue, (2) will still be correct; the consequent is true, therefore the conditional is true.

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Re:A Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical People Are by greggyb on Friday May 22, 2015 @05:30PM (#9590979)
Okay, I see where you're coming from now.

(1) may or may not be true. Understanding that we cannot trust (1), but that we don't care to verify it, then the 5 is necessary to prove (2).

That is much more subtle than I originally interpreted from you original post. Thanks for your patient explanation.

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