Which Alice?
Which Alice?
Which Alice?
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Looking-Glass Logic<br />
"Question Ten—Suppose he believes that <strong>Alice</strong> will not reach the<br />
eighth square without becoming a queen. Suppose he also believes<br />
that <strong>Alice</strong> will reach the eighth square. Does he believe that <strong>Alice</strong><br />
will become a queen, or doesn't he?"<br />
"I guess he does," replied <strong>Alice</strong>, "doesn't he?"<br />
"Well," said Humpty Dumpty, laughing, "the last question was<br />
really kind of unfair, so I don't expect you to get it."<br />
"More unfair than the other questions?" asked <strong>Alice</strong>.<br />
"Decidedly," he replied, "the other questions were all perfectly<br />
fair."<br />
"I find them all equally confusing!" replied <strong>Alice</strong>, "I still don't<br />
understand this Looking-Glass logic!"<br />
Now, if you, like <strong>Alice</strong>, are confused at this point, I can hardly<br />
blame you! Yet the key to the whole mystery is almost laughably<br />
simple. Rather than give a solution section to this chapter, I will<br />
incorporate the solutions in the dialogue which now follows.<br />
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