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Subject: Re: I, Mudd (Norman and the Gang)
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 12:47:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 12:47:11 1985
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>>One of the gems of logic that the gang uses to overwhelm the Androids is:
>>
>>            Kirk: "Everything Harry Mudd tells you is a lie."
>>            Mudd: "Norman, I am lying now."
>>
>>       This blows Norman away!  It seems to me that the flaw in the logic is what
>>       if Kirk is lying?
>	
> It doesn't matter.  In fact, Kirk is totally irrelevant to the logic.  Once
> Mudd states that he is lying, the circle begins (and Norm blows a fuse).
>
> This is clearer if we just change Mudd's statement to "What I am now saying is
> a lie."  The whole idea is silly, since it involves playing on language, not
> logic, but I guess Norman isn't smart enough to figure it out.
>

	Wouldn't this type of logic merely cause some type of trap
exception.  Norman should have just core dumped (this could have been
really messy!) if he didn't have the proper exception handler routine.
If Norman is all that sophisticated, he should have just ignored the
statements! :-)  (If you program an Atari 400 to divide by zero, you
just get an error -- it doesn't power down!  I hope Norman has more
than a 6502 as a brain!)  Double :-)

Joe Barone,	{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
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