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  • Re: REQ: Smullyan Quote

    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Danil on Tue Jul 19 07:16:25 2022
    On Monday, November 14, 2005 at 3:38:19 AM UTC-8, Danil wrote:
    Simon Tatham says...

    I remember this quote too. I had a vague memory that he was
    introduced as `Professor Smullyan' rather than `Raymond Smullyan',
    and so I googled for "Professor Smullyan" "you don't exist". This
    threw up exactly two hits. The first

    http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9908d&L=conch-l&F=&S=&P=16042

    cites it as appearing in Smullyan's own book `What is the Name of
    This Book?', on p201 (in some edition or other :-).

    Bingo! Thanks
    "I once gave a talk on my logic puzzles to an undergraduate mathematics
    club. I was introduced by the logician Melvin Fitting (a former student
    of mine, who knows me extremely well). His introduction really captures
    the spirit of this book almost better than the book itself! He said, 'I
    now introduce Professor Smullyan, who will prove to you that either he doesn't exist or you don't exist, but you won't know which.'
    _What is the Name of This Book_, Chapter 14 (How To Prove Anything),
    puzzle #238. Sure enough, it appears on page 201 of the 1978 hardbound edition. Also on the dust jacket.


    I'd imagine that looking up the quotation in WitNoTB? ought to give you the rest of the details.

    if i had to pick one Smullyan book (e.g. to take to a desert island), this one would be it.

    the 2nd might be tTiS or FU:aPGtG

    WitNoTB ---------- maybe [i] should be uppercase ?

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sat May 4 00:02:42 2024
    henh...@gmail.com wrote:

    On Monday, November 14, 2005 at 3:38:19 AM UTC-8, Danil wrote:
    Simon Tatham says...

    I remember this quote too. I had a vague memory that he was
    introduced as `Professor Smullyan' rather than `Raymond Smullyan',
    and so I googled for "Professor Smullyan" "you don't exist". This
    threw up exactly two hits. The first


    http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9908d&L=conch-l&F=&S=&P=16042

    cites it as appearing in Smullyan's own book `What is the Name of
    This Book?', on p201 (in some edition or other :-).

    Bingo! Thanks
    "I once gave a talk on my logic puzzles to an undergraduate mathematics

    club. I was introduced by the logician Melvin Fitting (a former student

    of mine, who knows me extremely well). His introduction really captures

    the spirit of this book almost better than the book itself! He said, 'I

    now introduce Professor Smullyan, who will prove to you that either he
    doesn't exist or you don't exist, but you won't know which.'
    _What is the Name of This Book_, Chapter 14 (How To Prove Anything),
    puzzle #238. Sure enough, it appears on page 201 of the 1978 hardbound
    edition. Also on the dust jacket.


    I'd imagine that looking up the quotation in WitNoTB? ought to give you
    the rest of the details.

    if i had to pick one Smullyan book (e.g. to take to a desert island),
    this one would be it.

    the 2nd might be tTiS or
    FU:aPGtG

    WitNoTB ---------- maybe [i] should be uppercase ?







    FU: aPGtoG <------- ?????????

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