The bartender asks “Do all three of you want a beer?”
The first logician says “I don’t know”.
The second logician says “I don’t know.”
The third logician says “Yes.”
The bartender asks “Do all three of you want a beer?”
The first logician says “I don’t know”.
The second logician says “I don’t know.”
The third logician says “Yes.”
OCs point was that if the first person hadn’t made up their mind yet, that would also cause them to say “i don’t know”, but the two following logicians seem to assume that the first person said “i don’t know” because they wanted it but didn’t know if the other two did
It’s a false dichotomy and faulty logic if you look too closely
But it’s a pretty funny joke
If he has not made a mind, he does not want beer. He might want beer few moments later, but at the moment of answering the question, he does not. That’s what my logic tells me.
Hmm, that’s true, if the question is if all three in this moment wants a beer, then not knowing if you want it means that you don’t currently want it in the strictest sense 🤔
This is a good point, but I’ll move the goalposts very slightly and suggest that human brains are capable of wanting something without knowing that they want something. For example, if you say you don’t know whether you want a beer, and then the person next to you orders a beer, then at that moment, you might realize that you really did want a beer before.
Wait are they bears or humans
Logicians is the keyword here… There are only 2 possible answers: yes (true) or no (false)
In logic there is no other option