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.”

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    1 year ago

    If any logician hadn’t made up his mind, then the answer to “do all of you want a beer” would be False, i. e. No.

    The idea that a Yes/No question can have any other state is not possible for these cartoonish logicians.

    (Of course, “logicians” do not exist. The closest thing in real life are mathematicians and computer scientists who are trained in logic, and these people known that the real world works differently than the simple logic presented in this joke, so your point is valid at some level, but it doesn’t invalidate the joke)