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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: puzzle (liars and truth-tellers)  spoiler
Message-ID: <1446@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 04:05:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 04:05:25 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 04:16:42 EST
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In article <5161@kestrel.ARPA> king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) writes:
>Punch the guy hard enough to injure him and see which way he goes.

That is about as good as anything, once one starts getting
into subtleties.  In particular, if you were to actually
encounter a couple of natives in an environment like that,
you'd not only have no idea how many of them were truth-
tellers, or whether all natives were either truth-tellers
or liars; in practice you wouldn't be able to count on the
natives being ideal logicians either.  It's better to not
get into situations like this in the first place..