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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
The Liar Paradox
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Medieval philosophers categorized several logic puzzles as insolubilia , unsolvable things. Probably the most common of these was (and stil...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
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As best we can determine, Symposius was a 4th- or 5th-century author of the Ænigmata , a collection of 100 Latin riddles. The oldest known...
Monday, April 14, 2014
The Exeter Book
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"The Wanderer" in the Exeter Book The Exeter Book was mentioned as the source of two poems about St. Guthlac . It holds much m...
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Alcuin, Puzzle-master
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Is there anyone who hasn't heard the puzzle of the fox, the goose, and the bag of corn? A man has to transport these three things across...
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