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Mr and Mrs Brown (Posted on 2002-04-26) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Mr and Mrs Brown are a little strange. When they are awake, their judgement about everything is absolutely perfect. When they are asleep however, it is exactly the opposite.

That is, if Mr Brown is awake and thinks that something is true, then it will always be true. But if he were to be sleeping and dreaming something to be true, it would always turn out to be false.

Once, late at night, Mr Brown was under the impression that Mrs Brown is asleep. At that very point in time, Mrs Brown was also thinking about her husband. Was she under the impression that he was asleep or that he was awake?

  Submitted by levik    
Rating: 2.8571 (14 votes)
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There are two possibilities here:
  • Mr Brown is awake, which means that he's right about Mrs Brown being asleep. Then since she is sleeping, she must wrongly be thinking that he is asleep as well.
  • Mr Brown is asleep, so he is wrong about his wife being asleep. She is actually awake, and thus will rightly think that he is sleeping.

    As you see, in both cases Mrs Brown thinks that Mr Brown is sleeping.

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    SolutionPuzzle SolutionK Sengupta2007-10-27 05:51:23
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    SolutionSolutionLewis2003-06-03 07:02:07
    re: solutionGamer2003-04-29 12:25:17
    solutionCarey2002-05-27 23:45:01
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