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ChrisVer
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I believe that you are trying to approach the paradox from a "word" point of view rather than its logic itself...
Each appearence, adds a new "information" to the game... so things like:
are trying to approach the problem from a wording prespective...
The point is that without the prophet's appearence, nobody could deduce that they are the blue-eyed...
this can be seen for the case where you have 1 man alone; if the prophet does not tell him that he sees 1 person with blue eyes, no matter if he knew the rule of commiting suicide, he would never commit it.
Each appearence, adds a new "information" to the game... so things like:
Demystifier said:So at some point in the past they had to acquire that knowledge. That could happen in many different ways.
are trying to approach the problem from a wording prespective...
The point is that without the prophet's appearence, nobody could deduce that they are the blue-eyed...
this can be seen for the case where you have 1 man alone; if the prophet does not tell him that he sees 1 person with blue eyes, no matter if he knew the rule of commiting suicide, he would never commit it.