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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Boodle Phil moiven? (solution by the author)
Message-ID: <2566@pucc-h>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 09:21:13 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2566
Posted: Thu Jan 23 09:21:13 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jan-86 08:57:57 EST
References: <343@mmm.UUCP> <418@mmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: ags@pucc-h.UUCP (Dave Seaman)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <418@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
>Incidentally, Seaman's posted answer, "Phil moiven nar Phil," is of
>course semantically incorrect.  He could have said, "Phil moiven
>_sar_," the word "sar" indicating that the object of the sentence is
>identical to the subject, or "Phil moiven Phil," but the word "nar"
>indicates that the object of the sentence is a watermelon, which of
>course cannot be deduced logically from the information given.

Andre seems to have forgotten the other meaning of "nar," which is
"only."  Neither of his suggested answers, "Phil moiven sar" or
"Phil moiven Phil" conveys the meaning that Phil moiven no one else
but Phil, which was established by the fact that the prolog program
turned up no alternate solutions.
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Dave Seaman	  					pur-ee!pucc-h!ags